Top Artifice Quotes

What does it mean to demonstrate in the streets, what is the significance of that collective activity so symptomatic of the twentieth century? In stupefaction Ulrich watches the demonstrators from the...

Naturalness onstage is just as much an artifice as naturalism in the novel

Artifice Definition

(n.) A handicraft; a trade; art of making.

(n.) Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.

(n.) Artful or skillful contrivance.

(n.) Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.]

All too often, we mask truth in artifice, concealing ourselves for fear of losing the ones we love or prolonging a deception for those we wish to expose. We hide behind that which brings us comfort fr...

It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to men... and modern nations, in the consecrations of kings, and in several s...