Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

-de Kooning,Willem
  'A Desperate View', lecture given in NewYork.

De dois ff se compo‹  e Esta cidade a meu ver: Um furtar, outro foder. Of two f's, as I see it, is this city composed: one fraud, the other fornication.

-Matos, Grego¤  rio de
'Define a sua cidade' ('He defines his city'), collected in Cro"  nica do viver bahiano (published1882).

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies,O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! Light the prime work of God to me is extinct, And all her various objects of delight Annull'd, which might in part my grief have eas'd, Inferior to the vilest now become Of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, They creep, yet see, I dark in light expos'd To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, 586 Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.

-Milton,John
Samson  Agonistes, l.67^79.

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only theapplication of themthat is human. Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable asthose by whichthe universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.

-Paine,Thomas
  TheAge of Reason, pt.1.