Charlatan Quotes - page 2

A policeman is a charlatan who offers, in return for obedience, to protect him (a) from his superiors, (b) from his equals, and (c) from himself. This last service, under democracy, is commonly the most esteemed of them all. In the United States, at least theoretically, it is the only thing that keeps ice-wagon drivers, Y.M.C.A. secretaries, insurance collectors and other such human camels from smoking opium, ruining themselves in the night clubs, and going to Palm Beach with Follies girls. (H. L. Mencken)
The completest charlatan that ever existed. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me. View quote
Timothy Ferriss
Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth...It has no day. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The mass of mankind, Burke implies, reason hardly at all, in the higher sense, nor ever can: deprived of folk-wisdom and folk-law, which are prejudice and prescription, they can do no more than cheer the demagogue, enrich the charlatan, and submit to the despot. View quote
Russell Kirk
Boris Johnson is a shameless liar and a globalist charlatan. The sooner he resigns in disgrace, the better. He could have been a figure of Churchillian proportions, instead, he'll be remembered as a fraud and a joke. View quote
Boris Johnson