Quotes About Imposture

The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures which a workaday world can but seldom afford.

For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced.

the highest joy he was capable of, he received from having a piece of news in his possession an hour or two sooner than any other person in the town. His advices, however, were seldom authentic; for he would swallow almost anything as a truth—a humour which many made use of to impose upon him. Thus

To these encroachments, time and ignorance, the two great supporters of imposture, gave authority;

I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.

Big Hat No Cattle

Actually, the leap of faith - to give it the memorable name that Soren Kierkegaard bestowed upon it - is an imposture. As he himself pointed out, it is not a leap that can be made once and for all. It is a leap that has to go on and on being performed, in spite of mounting evidence to the contrary. This effort is actually too much for the human mind, and leads to delusions and manias.

If good and evil are continuous, any crime can be linked with any virtue. Imposture merges away into self-deception so that only relatively has there ever been impostor.

The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole people, the adoption of the Constitution was the merest farce and imposture, binding upon nobody.

A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.

Così, dall'ansia di perdere certe gioie appena gustate, dall'innata avarizia, dall'oscuro disprezzo per i propri simili, prontamente cogliendo l'occasione che la sorte gli offriva, con grave ma lucido azzardo, Giuseppe Vella si fece protagonista della grande impostura.

Puede que la música proporcionara un espacio abierto para la experimentación, pero las más de las veces lo que encontré fue impostura, poses fotogénicas de tipos de éxito que asumían el papel de rebelde autodestructivo, pero por cada mártir había cien con la suficiente garantía de saber parar a tiempo y no estrellarse.

La izquierda, desde que asumió la representación del puritanismo, se lo puso muy fácil a sus rivales. Ellos mismos meten la cabeza en la boca de un león que los devora, porque nadie es capaz de sostener esa moralidad impostada que predican.

From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.

Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too.

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

Some people are so fake that they make Pamela Anderson's boobies look real!