Quotes About Frauds

#1. Men are strangely inclined to worship what they do not understand. A grand secret, upon which several imposers on mankind have totally relied for the success of their frauds.

Henry Fielding

#2. A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.

Damon Lindelof

#3. The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are. There aren't any. Most of the writers are likeable frauds. Some are unlikable frauds.

R.A. Lafferty

#4. Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

John Adams

#5. The truth actually lies mostly in three words - God bless you, I love you, I adore you, I trust you, I believe you, I mistrust you, and finally God curse you, I hate you and talak talak talak. Only the frauds and politicians speak beyond the three truthful words.

Amit Abraham

#6. The propensity to swindle grows parallel with the propensity to speculate during a boom the implosion of an asset price bubble always leads to the discovery of frauds and swindles

Charles P. Kindleberger

#7. I'm a Christian. I was born and raised a Catholic. But I think there are people that are frauds that are ministers.

Sean Hannity

#8. If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

V.S. Naipaul

#9. Several recent authors have written of "the imposter phenomenon," describing the feeling of many apparently successful people that their success is undeserved and that one day people will unmask them for the frauds they are.

Harold S. Kushner

#10. The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

Adam Smith

#11. A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.

Patricia Wentworth

#12. An editorial of the Journal AMA, Jan 8, 1949, discussed the Gerson Therapy under the heading 'Frauds and Fables'. At that time, Dr. Gerson's lawyer wrote a letter to the JAMA, threatening a suit for libel ... The editorial was withdrawn ... (leaving) columns which were blank.

Charlotte Gerson

#13. A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

George Bernard Shaw

#14. Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting -based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun.

Warren Buffett

#15. We have to expose Republicans for the frauds that they are when it comes to what they want to do for working men and women.

Dannel Malloy

#16. A hypocrite is one who plays two parts consciously for his own ends. When we find fault with other people we may be quite sincere, and yet Jesus says in reality we are frauds.

Oswald Chambers

#17. I know talent when I see it. I know frauds when I see 'em. I know players that can play and can't play.

Keyshawn Johnson

#18. I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon

David Carr

#19. Hollywood was fine with fakes, but it was most definitely not okay with frauds.

Lauren Conrad

#20. All men are frauds. Some, the wise, fool only others. Others, the foolish, fool only themselves. And a rare few fool both others and themselves - they are the rulers of Men

R. Scott Bakker

#21. What a pair of frauds.

Sebastian Faulks

#22. I arrived in the USA in 2001 and by 2015 I knew through experience that I was living in a country of corporate incompetence and blatant frauds.

Steven Magee

#23. Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. [ ... ] The art of government is the exclusive possession of quacks and frauds. It has been so since the earliest days, and it will probably remain so until the end of time.

H.L. Mencken

#24. If you look at the great frauds of all time, Enron had that phantom trading floor. What Herbalife has is it has phantom or fictitious customers.

Bill Ackman

#25. To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.

Mason Cooley

#26. Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

Adam Gopnik

#27. I was in the land of fakes and frauds and phonies - I felt like saying "Howdy cousin," to everybody who walked by.

Gary Reilly

#28. All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

Richard Whately

#29. The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#30. My mom once told me that's the secret of life. We all think we're frauds. Everybody's winging it.

Elan Mastai

#31. Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.

Saul Bellow

#32. The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

Gamaliel Bailey

#33. These are called the pious frauds of friendship.

Henry Fielding

#34. I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the current political system as nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and advantages of economic elites.

Russell Brand

#35. No matter how many red Xs we write on our hands to end slavery, as long as these same hands are clicking on pornographic websites and scrolling through sexual pictures and videos, we are frauds to the core.

David Platt

#36. In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.
(Frauds on the Fairies, 1853)

Charles Dickens

#37. WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.

Jesse Ventura

#38. The world doesn't really have much respect for Christians who adopt its fashions and ideas. It is inclined to regard them with contempt - to write them off either as cowards who are ashamed of their faith or as frauds whose profession is not sincere.

Billy Graham

#39. But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds.

Charles Dickens

#40. Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded.

David Hume

#41. I've known a good many magicians myself in India - mango plant and all. But the Indian ones are all frauds, I'll swear.

G.K. Chesterton

#42. All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

H.L. Mencken

#43. Our only choice is between irrespirable truths and salutary frauds.

Emil Cioran

#44. A poet's work ... to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.

Salman Rushdie

#45. I think it's fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we're unique geniuses, and the constant fear that we're witless frauds who are speeding toward epic failure.

Scott Lynch

#46. If I am a great man, then all great men are frauds.

Bonar Law

#47. Priest and wise man and prophet alike felt that their professional well-being was threatened by Jeremiah's singularity. Panicked, they plotted his disgrace. Their "law" and "counsel" and "words" were in danger of being exposed as pious frauds by Jeremiah's honest and passionate life.

Eugene H. Peterson

#48. Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time. As the lead local prosecutor in the world's financial capital, he has battled frauds like the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which stole billions of dollars from investors worldwide.

Alex Berenson

#49. According to Abdul Kalam Azad, 'It is one of the greatest frauds on the people to suggest that religious affinity can unite areas which are geographically, economically, linguistically and culturally different.

Taslima Nasrin

#50. A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Salman Rushdie

#51. Be a follower. Be a leader. Learn what it means to be both. Don't follow a follower. Follow your heart. Be careful of frauds. They are all around us.

Sadiqua Hamdan

#52. To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and an aspiration toward beauty were inseparable from civilization. In America the word art was distorted to mean artificial.

Anais Nin

#53. Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.

Jack Butler Yeats

#54. Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#55. Radiation frauds are alive and well in western societies.

Steven Magee

#56. They are frauds. We justify pain because we do not know what to make of it, nor do we have any choice but to bear it. Happiness alone can make us momentarily larger than ourselves. Not always, but at least occasionally, it can break our obsession with the self.

Kiran Nagarkar

#57. There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

Charles Caleb Colton

#58. Every amateur harbors the fantasy that his work is only waiting to be discovered; a second fantasy-that the established contemporary artists must also be frauds- is a necessary corollary

Janet Malcolm

#59. Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light.

Charles Caleb Colton

#60. Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists ... but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.

Lafcadio Hearn

#61. I started to wonder, and felt relieved that there might be truth to the idea of intellectuals all being frauds. I knew that I certainly was.

Marie Calloway

#62. Something new seems to be at work in the contemporary world - a process that is eating away the very heart of social life, not merely by putting salesmanship in place of moral virtue, but by putting everything - virtue included - on sale.

Roger Scruton

#63. One of life's ironies is that the more honest and vulnerable you are, the more others try to discredit you as a fraud and a fake. Shut them up by not caring.

Dan Pearce