Mountebank Quotes

#1. They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this ... because ... I am a natural-born mountebank.

George Bernard Shaw

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

William John Locke

#3. As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.

Abraham Cowley

#4. The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. 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 ...

John Geddes

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

Marquis De Sade

#7. A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why, sir, books would become like quacks' potions, with every mountebank in the newspapers claiming one volume's superiority over another.

Philip Kerr

#8. Only two things are required to accredit
an alleged miracle: a mountebank and a crowd of spineless lookers-on.

Marquis De Sade

#9. 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.

Douglas Preston

#10. I'm a baseball player. I'm also a guy who mows his lawn and plays with his dog.

Scott Rolen

#11. I'm more than just an option.

Drake

#12. You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.

Chuck Yeager

#13. To be in the present seemed meaningless in practice when the present was merely the place in which to plan for the future or review the past.

T. Mountebank

#14. I swore on my knees at the altar where you held me that I would kill you. It was an oath you made me make in my own blood. And now I have returned to give you the promised blade.

T. Mountebank

#15. To do nothing is the way to be nothing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#16. I wonder what the world would be like if everybody walked their talk; if word was married with deed; promises delivered by action.

Tom Hiddleston

#17. And the General regrets the night.

T. Mountebank

#18. There will always be insatiable egotists who need to dominate and control, and there cannot be anarchy if no one follows the rules.

T. Mountebank

#19. In high school, girls started wearing high-waisted pants with their shirts tucked into them. I don't get what that's about.

Dylan O'Brien

#20. Did you just grab my butt?" I whispered. "What?" "Curran!" "Yes?" I could hear controlled laughter in his voice. Unbelievable. I sped up. "We're tracking ghouls and you're grabbing my butt." "I always make sure to pay attention to important things.

Ilona Andrews

#21. The real monsters are humans without conscience,

Robert E. Keller

#22. In Bruce Springsteen songs, you can either stay and rot, or you can escape and burn.

Nick Hornby

#23. Oh I'd be more than happy to hold, I'll just spend the time working on that brain tumor.

David C. Holley

#24. Buildings have been made because of man.

Leon Battista Alberti

#25. Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of men, make private interest submit to the interest of the public.

David Hume