Quotes About Imposters

#1. It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.

C.S. Lewis

#2. Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.

Pablo Picasso

#3. There are lots of imposters in this earth, and to very first there always comes a second, to every reality there always come a fantasy, and the fantasy wants to come and live the life of the reality

Peter Tosh

#4. We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#5. She preferred to nurture healthy relationships with a few women, like Shelby, a genuinely loyal friend, and weed out weak and petty imposters who passed through her life.

Sarah Jo Smith

#6. When I see imposters like ... Swinburne, [and] Fleay, who know as much early English as my dog, & who fancy they can settle Chaucer difficulties as they blow their noses, then I ridicule or kick them. But earnest students I treat with respect, & am only too glad to learn from them.

James Turner

#7. This is how we were meant for each other. How we make our living. The lives of frustrated poets and imposters. This, too, how the love works and then doesn't: a mutual spectacle of imagination.

Chang-rae Lee

#8. I started keeping track of my pet peeves and so far have counted over 160 ... but to pick one: muffins. They're imposters. They think they're breakfast food, but really, they are just terrible cupcakes.

Aubrey Peeples

#9. In the beginning we all feel a bit like imposters in our capes and veils and being called 'sister'. But don't worry about it
just act like you think a nun should when you're not sure what to do, and you'll find that through grace and love you become one.

Mark Salzman

#10. It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.

Emil Cioran

#11. A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims ... but accomplices

George Orwell

#12. It is difficult to reconstruct an emotion. At times it is difficult even to admit to one. I have practiced long and hard at denying entry to such twin imposters as triumph and disaster, or love and hate, but sometimes the barriers are breached.

Simon Mawer

#13. I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

Plato

#14. Even more useful, he also possessed some eerily precocious form of sage-like wisdom that allowed him to greet both failure and victory as imposters.

Mark Frost

#15. When you meet triumph or disaster, treat these imposters alike.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#16. At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've made this deal that we tell you a tale and a pack of lies, but there will be a truth in it. You may enjoy it, or it will disturb you.

Pete Postlethwaite

#17. I have experienced both triumph and disaster, and, to quote Kipling, have treated those two imposters just the same.

Jeffrey Archer

#18. One of the weird things about Hollywood is we're all imposters; we're all just glammed up.

James McAvoy

#19. Imposters, in one shape or another, are likely to flourish as long as human nature remains what it is and society shows itself ready to be gulled.

Steve Berry

#20. The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Pablo Picasso

#21. The desert sorted the faithful from imposters, but the city did not seem to know the difference, and actually rewarded the impure.

Brian Herbert

#22. The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.

George Gilder

#23. Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.

Hanif Kureishi

#24. When you're way too real, fake people be like: You're a trip. I want somebody with real game (lies).

T.F. Hodge

#25. Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling.

Hillel F. Damron

#26. Only you can do it

P. Ambuj

#27. And many to study so much are inclined, that utterly they fall out of their mind.

Alexander Barclay

#28. Those guys who want to have the Mohawk ... which, to me, is the new business casual.

Gerard Way

#29. Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.

Will Durant

#30. Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.

Wyndham Lewis