Fictitious Quotes
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Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts.
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More Fictitious Quotes
The community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual personswhoare considered asconstituting as it were its members.The interest of the community then, Bentley is what? The sum of the interests of the several members who compose it.
jeremy bentham— 1789 An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, ch.1.
Poker teaches self-reliance, self-control, self-respect, self-denial, and independence. But when cards are wild or are given fictitious authority, the noble game is robbed of its romance, grace and stimulation and degenerates into a gambling scheme.
henry fountain ashurst— Johnson, James W. (2002). Arizona Politicians: The Noble and the Notorious, illustrations by David `Fitz' Fitzsimmons, University of Arizona Press. p 118.
Persons in trade had better be very cautious how they add a fictitious name to their firm, for the purpose of gaining credit.
law, edward, 1st baron ellenborough— Guidon v. Robson (1809), 2 Camp. 304.
I said, `Now, wait a minute, so you're telling me you want this fish who lives in a fish tank in a dentist's office to be a fictitious character from an NBC sitcom?' I mean, it just doesn't make any sense to me. It's like, why would you want Mickey Mouse to be the lead in the `House of the Seven Gables' or something.
megan mullally— On being fired from "Finding Nemo" for refusing to do her Karen voice
The fictitious deities of all races in all worlds once more crowded themselves upon me, symbols of majesty and tenderness, of ruthless power, of blind creativity, and of all-seeing wisdom. And though these images were but the fantasies of created minds, it seemed to me that one and all did indeed embody some true feature of the Star Maker's impact upon the creatures.
Olaf Stapledon— Ch. XIII The Beginning and the End, 3. The Supreme Moment and After
In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in such parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue; which is of itself a strong presumption that in the infancy of letters, learning and science, or in the world's non-age, those who confided in miracles, as a proof of the divine mission of the first promulgators of revelation, were imposed upon by fictitious appearances instead of miracles.
ethan allen— Reason, the Only Oracle of Man: Or, A Compenduous System of Natural Religion, Ch. VI, Section III: Rare and Wonderful Phenomena no evidence of Miracles, nor are Diabolical Spirits able to effect them, or Superstitious Traditions to confirm them, nor can Ancient Miracles prove Recent Revelations (1854)
Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.
Isaac Asimov— Chapter 17 “Gaia” section 5, p. 363
Could Hope inspect her Basis Her Craft were done Has a fictitious Charter Or it has none Balked in the vastest instance But to renew Felled but by one assassin Prosperity
— 1283: Could Hope inspect her Basis
If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.
e. m. forster— Chapter Three: People
The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.
david harvey— Chapter 10, Finance Capital And Its Contradictions, p. 304
Her haughtiness and habit of domination was, therefore, a fictitious character, induced over that which was natural to her, and it deserted her when her eyes were opened to the extent of her own danger, as well as that of her lover and her guardian; and when she found her will, the slightest expression of which was wont to command respect and attention, now placed in opposition to that of a man of a strong, fierce, and determined mind, who possessed the advantage over her, and was resolved to use it, she quailed before him.
walter scott— Ch. 23. (On the postal service)
Persons in trade had better be very cautious how they add a fictitious name to their firm, for the purpose of gaining credit.
— Lord Ellenborough, Guidon v. Robson (1809), 2 Camp. 304.
I should be extremely sorry to find that in a fictitious proceeding, instituted for the more easy attaining of justice, different rules were to obtain in the different Courts.
— Lord Kenyon, C.J., Goodright v. Rich (1797), 7 T. R. 334.
Not a few of the false prophets for instance, Mahomet without premeditated foresight, have by slow and imperceptible degrees gained over parties of retainers, and afterwards deceived both themselves and others: accordingly, the circumstances of their birth and their condition, in their early years, are in the case of such impostors unknown, unworthy of trust, and fictitious.
— Johann Albrecht Bengel (1860). Vol. 2: Gnomon of the New Testament (M. E. Bengel & J. C. F. Steudel, Ed.) (A. R. Fausset, Trans.) (10). Edinburgh: T&T Clark.
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
— Frederic Bastiat , in The Libertarian Reader: Classic and Contemporary Writings from Lao Tzu to],p.443
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate of either his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are like occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.
— Samuel Johnson, in The Rambler No. 68 (10 November 1750)
I should be extremely sorry to find that in a fictitious proceeding, instituted for the more easy attaining of justice, different rules were to obtain in the different Courts.
kenyon, lloyd, 1st baron kenyon— Goodright v. Rich (1797), 7 T. R. 334.
A statute of 1344 shows some weakness; but the statute of 1391 is memorable, not merely as being the Mortmain Code of three centuries, but as extending the rule of mortmain to all bodies, religious and secular alike, having perpetual succession. For this extension marks the definite recognition by English Law of the corporation, or, as it is sometimes called, the 'fictitious person' - the legal personality which is not restricted to the limits of individual life. The gradual evolution of this institution is one of the most fascinating chapters in legal history...
edward jenks— Chapter VIII, Methods Of Alienation, p. 106
