Contrive Quotations

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am, by what devious means do you contrive to remain idle? Teach me, O master.

Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the chips that were left.

Country and Western music? It's contrived calculated, commercial music. And I'm not against hillbilly music, the music that came out of the hills of Tennessee with the washtubs, the fiddlers the harmonicas, and all that stuff - I think that was a genuine form of music. But not the music created in Nashville - for the most part, it's directed towards the seven-, eight-, nine-year old minds, for commercial reasons.

I think there's a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves.

Earle and his staff engaged in an extraordinarily irregular and desperate attempt to contrive a viable charge

My country has, in its wisdom, contrived for me the most insignificant office (the Vice-Presidency) that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived