Quotes About Mountebank

Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and you're a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency.

Hezekiah Pendergast," Constance continued, "was the great-great-grandfather of Aloysius—and a first-rate mountebank. He began his career as a snake-oil salesman for traveling medicine shows and, over time, devised his own 'medicine': Hezekiah's Compound Elixir and Glandular Restorative.

One Pinch, a hungry lean-fac'd villain,A mere anatomy, a mountebank,A threadbare juggler, and a fortune-teller,A needy, hollow-ey'd, sharp-looking wretch,A living-dead man.

Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.

I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been...

The original Society of the Wise, which was your actual official name for the Folly, had been proudly part of the Enlightenment. God, if he existed, was the ultimate master craftsman who had set the world in motion, with fixed immutable laws, and then left it to get on with things. They saw angels and devils as abstract concepts and held that anything wandering around with a halo, wings, or a pitchfork was either an uppity fae, a con man, or a mountebank.

Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.

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