Quotes About Charlatan

He was known through all that country. He had no kin, no ties, and he antedated everyone; nobody knew how old he was—a tall thin man in a filthy frock coat and no shirt beneath it and a long, perfectly white beard reaching below his waist, who lived in a mud-daubed hut in the river bottom five or six miles from any road. He made and sold nostrums and charms, and it was said of him that ate not only frogs and snakes but bugs as well—anything that he could catch.

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.

Since Fry had helped to write the catalog he was obliged to be civil: The Times was not. Having dealt with Matisse, the paper said, the art of M. Picasso is a very different matter. He, too, is not a charlatan, but we do not believe that he is an artist of narrow and intense originality like M. Matisse. Rather he seems to us to be by nature extremely imitative, and to have endeavoured to preserve himself from imitation by the pursuit

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.

Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in physick.

When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph, combines the characters sha, meaning to reflect or copy, and shin, meaning truth, hence the photographer seems to entertain grand delusions of portraying truth.

Beware of impostors talking or preaching with sweet words.

Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.

Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.

La gente puede estar en desacuerdo sobre la cuestión de si todos deberían estudiar economía en serio. Pero una cosa es segura. Un hombre que habla o escribe públicamente sobre la oposición entre el capitalismo y el socialismo sin haberse familiarizado completamente con todo lo que la economía tiene que decir sobre estos temas es un charlatán irresponsable.

T requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.

A lot of people pretend to be. They wear robes and put on airs to take advantage of the ignorant and gullible. But