Top 25 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

Mountebank Quotes #254700
#2. Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.

William John Locke

Mountebank Quotes #31596
#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

Mountebank Quotes #1534266
#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

Mountebank Quotes #1488105
#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

Mountebank Quotes #1315105
#6. It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.

Marquis De Sade

Mountebank Quotes #1109978
#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

Mountebank Quotes #871632
#8. Only two things are required to accredit
an alleged miracle: a mountebank and a crowd of spineless lookers-on.

Marquis De Sade

Mountebank Quotes #640459
#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

Mountebank Quotes #421565
#10. I'm a baseball player. I'm also a guy who mows his lawn and plays with his dog.

Scott Rolen

Mountebank Quotes #1808807
#11. I'm more than just an option.

Drake

Mountebank Quotes #1718278
#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

Mountebank Quotes #1513741
#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

Mountebank Quotes #1510997
#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

Mountebank Quotes #1169239
#15. To do nothing is the way to be nothing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mountebank Quotes #1089813
#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

Mountebank Quotes #918061
#17. And the General regrets the night.

T. Mountebank

Mountebank Quotes #828880
#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

Mountebank Quotes #686135
#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

Mountebank Quotes #470186
#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

Mountebank Quotes #355190
#21. The real monsters are humans without conscience,

Robert E. Keller

Mountebank Quotes #325775
#22. In Bruce Springsteen songs, you can either stay and rot, or you can escape and burn.

Nick Hornby

Mountebank Quotes #299991
#23. Oh I'd be more than happy to hold, I'll just spend the time working on that brain tumor.

David C. Holley

Mountebank Quotes #297324
#24. Buildings have been made because of man.

Leon Battista Alberti

Mountebank Quotes #151532
#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

Mountebank Quotes #130636

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