Quotes About Charlatan

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

That old mountebank? He won't find out anything. He's all talk and moustaches.

Any fool can start a religion. And many do.

Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

The reason that 'guru' is such a popular word is because 'charlatan' is so hard to spell.

Dimka kept his face expressionless. Trofim Lysenko was a scientific charlatan, a clever self-promoter who had won Khrushchev's favor even though his research was worthless. He promised improved yields that never materialized, but he managed to persuade political leaders that his opponents were "anti-progress," an accusation that was as fatal in the USSR as "Communist" was in the USA

There are hundreds of intelligent and big brains in every country in the world to run that country successfully but somehow and often either an immoral stupid or a charlatan imbecile comes to power!

Leo Koretz, the Bernie Madoff of the Roaring Twenties, operated his swindle for far longer and with more panache than his contemporary, Charles Ponzi. He was a better actor, a more adept liar, a shrewder salesman. He kept his scam alive – and his investors none the wiser – for almost two decades …. In terms of the scale of their frauds, staying power and sheer audacity, Leo Koretz and Bernie Madoff stand apart in the pantheon of pyramid-building swindlers.

I'm just drawn to the odd guy, the man who is full of it, the guy who has limited talent but is pretending he's a genius.

A TV preacher, you know those guys? Evangelists." "I thought they were all in jail," Parker said.

So far I'm not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man.

The Great and Terrible Humbug

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

Billy Graham is a boring, racist charlatan.

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.

I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.

The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weakness of human nature.

The Grand Bargain is a Grand Lie. Anyone who argues for it is either a fool or a charlatan. If President Obama was anything but the establishment hack that he is, he would never consider it.

I got out of the music industry many years ago. I had a charlatan for a producer who I wanted nothing to do with. He's dead now, so I guess I can't beat that horse any more. It left a very bad taste in my mouth, so I just went on about my business doing what I do and not involving myself with record companies, except for distribution.

The first thing any charlatan needs is nomenclature. A special language. Trappings. That's the true genesis of psychobabble terms such as 'disclosure' and 'in denial.' Every good con man needs plausibility. . .

It is high time we found out about this man Cummings. Let us give him every opportunity to show us at once whether he is a genius, a charlatan, or a congenital defective - and get him off our minds.

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

Lewis Meggleton had given himself out as the last and the greatest of the prophets, having power to save or damn.

By an exquisite (and, for Bill, surely excruciating) irony, this scheming, selfish, money-mad charlatan turned his back on his family just as his eldest son began to amass the largest fortune in history.