Top 140 Counterfeit Quotes & Sayings

Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.

Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death

Downy sleep, death's counterfeit.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.

Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

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

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

If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church.

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

The Federal Reserve System is nothing more than legalized counterfeit.

In the inheritance, I seek to dramatically distinguish between genuine, authentic Christianity on the one hand, and counterfeit, alternative spirituality on the other hand. One of my primary purposes is to demonstrate that there are two kingdoms operating in the earth today, the genuine, superior kingdom of Jesus Christ, which reigns supreme, and the counterfeit, occult kingdom of the enemy, which, through extreme subtlety, has led millions of deluded souls astray.

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

Punishment for putting patients at risk ought to reflect the gravity of manufacturing, distributing or selling counterfeit medications.

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.

Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.

Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

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

To the cheater, there is no such thing as honesty, and to Republicans the idea of serving the public good is counterfeit on the face of it ? they never felt such an urge, and therefore it must not exist.

There are three kinds of yeses. There's commitment, confirmation, and counterfeit. People are most used to giving the counterfeit yes because they've been trapped by the confirmation yes so many times. So the way you master no is understanding what really happens when somebody says 'no.' When yes is commitment, no is protection.

It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

It's probably easier and cheaper to counterfeit hundred-dollar bills than it is to counterfeit Bitcoin.

True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.

Counterfeit charm is worse than none at all.

We fear not the truth, even if it be gloomy, but its counterfeit.

Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart.

Togetherness is a substitute sense of community, a counterfeit communion.

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

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

Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love.

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

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

Last Vegas is a counterfeit version of the New Jerusalem. And it shares something of the glorious reality that it mocks.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

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.

You are called not to be successful or to meet any of the other counterfeit standards of this world, but to be faithful and to be expended in the cause of serving the risen and returning Christ.

Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.

Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his entire life!" Those are counterfeit thoughts in a counterfeit society.

Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength.

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

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

If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.

The face of Truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit visors which have been put upon her.

A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

The last thing we should do is allow ourselves to be infantilized by a counterfeit version of enlightenment.

An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.

The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.

Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.

A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.

The counterfeit trinity is me, myself, and I.

I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud.

There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.

This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.