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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. — Thomas Gainsborough

Have you ever been married? Had that thing of someone calling you by a name not your own? It's unsettling. It's like a fictitious person. — Stacy Schiff

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it. — Elizabeth Peters

Spiritual: religion without any rules. All the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands. — Stefan Molyneux

The world of human aspiration is largely fictitious and if we do not understand this we understand nothing about man. — Ernest Becker

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy. — John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

The fictitious kleptomaniac's only crime was stealing imaginations — Dean Cavanagh

The only wards I ever knew happen to be fictitious characters."--Augusta Evans Wilson, VASHTI, (1869). — Sheryl Wright Stinchcum

This was a practical application of the principle that a half-feigned and fictitious faith is better than no faith at all. — Thomas Hardy

The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. — James Madison

In fact, she was rapidly coming to suspect her fictitious image was just that, and it didn't quite fit with the real Sebastian Fairfax at all. — Emma Bennet

a supposedly fictitious God. He goes — Rita Louise

Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true. — Horace

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality. — Walter Lippmann

ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease. — Leon Eisenberg

others swapped lewd jokes and fictitious tales of several kinds of booty scored. — Hugh Howey

I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious. — John Lee Hancock

We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

If you look at the great frauds of all time, Enron had that phantom trading floor. What Herbalife has is it has phantom or fictitious customers. — Bill Ackman

Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character. — Denzel Whitaker

Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues. — Isaac

If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious. — E. M. Forster

For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labour, which is what gives money its value. — Adolf Hitler

Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump. — Ludwig Von Mises

Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud. — Bill Ackman

With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family. — John Banville

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. — Che Guevara

I remember a time where Trolls were a fictitious monster from fairy tales, not arseholes on the internet looking for attention. — Robert O'Sullivan

O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded! — William Gilbert

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. — Gilbert Murray

Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other. — Samuel Johnson

She even takes the goings-on of fictitious characters personally. — Laura Buzo

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we're talking about. — David Hume

From Matheran I mailed the notes of my failed novel. I mailed them to fictitious address. — Yann Martel

She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world. — Kate Chopin

This is a work of fiction, and the people in it are fictitious. The ghosts are real. — Nathaniel Benchley

We like nonfiction, and we live in fictitious times, — Michael Moore

Everything I write is a rebound. — Stuart Stutzman

I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge. — Martin Short

The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital. — David Harvey

If a stranger is writing something completely fictitious, or insulting me on a blog or a tabloid, I don't take it personally. — Dasha Zhukova

The economy which prefers fictitious money to real, is, at best, like that which prefers a leaky ship to a sound one. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.