Sophistry Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Sophistry


Sophistry is like a window curtain—it pleases as an ornament, but its true use is to keep out the light. —Anonymous	1
As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry cleaves close to and protects Sin’s rotten trunk, concealing its defects. —William Cowper	2
Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a falsity which, when stated barely in a few sentences, would not deceive a child, may deceive half the world if diluted in a quarto volume. —Richard Whately	3