Contrived Quotes

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

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.

It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal.

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.

For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.

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

I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

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

But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn't something that was fake or contrived as I got older.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.