Counterfeit Quotations

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.

The counterfeit trinity is me, myself, and I.

Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.

They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.

Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death

True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.

Downy sleep, death's counterfeit.

The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.

The Federal Reserve System is nothing more than legalized counterfeit.

The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.

When you're at peace, there's no counterfeit freedom.