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
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. — Charles Caleb Colton
Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability. — Kevin Mitnick
It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false — Emile M. Cioran
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. — Aesop
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations. — George Crabbe
Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators. — Mary Parker Follett
No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers. — Robert A. Heinlein
There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots. — Warren Buffett
Not many people are true, fake as the lies they tell — Kid Cudi
When we bluff our way through life, pretending to be who we are not, we end up looking worse than we truly are. — Jay Shetty
The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not. — Hillary Clinton
Those who pretend to know what they don't, will be thought ignorant of even what they know. — Thiruvalluvar
Short Impostors Quotes
There is only one heaven, one earth and one queen (me) Queen Elizabeth is an impostor. — Dinah Washington
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same. — Rudyard Kipling
It is impossible to feign mastery of an instrument, however skillful the impostor may be. — Andres Segovia
Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy. — David Frum
The people who make art their business are mostly impostors. — Pablo Picasso
Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote. — Stanley Tucci
Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way. — Stanley Tucci
IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors. — Ambrose Bierce
Both triumph and disaster are impostors. — Rudyard Kipling
I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day. — Errol Flynn
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He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on the basis of what cannot be proved is an imposter. — Han Fei
Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. — Rudyard Kipling
Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter. — Charles Spurgeon
A wolf is no less a wolf because he's dressed in sheepskin and the devil is no less the devil because he's dressed as an angel. — LeCrae
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even-if you will-eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with. — Joseph Brodsky
A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question. — Andre Malraux
He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter. — William Blake
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. — Pablo Picasso
To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure. — Nathaniel Branden
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
If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it... — Rudyard Kipling
I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product. — Philippe Starck
If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son. — Rudyard Kipling
Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger. — Thomas Merton
I was an impostor, the worthy associate of a brigand, &c., &c., and all this for an atom of chlorine put in the place of an atom of hydrogen, for the simple correction of a chemical formula! — Auguste Laurent
As in the natural life a child must have a father and a mother, so in the supernatural life of grace a true child of the Church must have God for his Father and Mary for his mother. If he prides himself on having God for his Father but does not give to Mary the tender affection of a true child, he is an impostor and his father is the devil. — Louis de Montfort
Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be—but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition. — Hugh Nibley
While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life. — Brennan Manning
As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and realize that, if we were not, we would be God. The art of gentleness toward ourselves leads to being gentle with others -- and is a natural prerequisite for our presence to God in prayer. — Brennan Manning
What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and the uneducated? — Mehmet Murat Ildan
All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe. — Thomas Paine
We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals? — Lord Byron
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence. — Charles Caleb Colton
I met another man who considered himself perfect, but he was thoroughly mad; and I do not believe that any of the pretenders to perfection are better than good maniacs... for while a man has got a spark of reason left in him, he cannot, unless he is the most impudent of impostors, talk about being perfect. — Charles Spurgeon
Christ was either the grandest, guiltiest of impostors, by a marvelous and most subtle refinement of wickedness, or He was God manifest in the flesh. — Herrick Johnson
He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack; and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance. — John Milton
Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him. — Brennan Manning
Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any. — Thomas Paine
I will tell you my position now, as somebody who is ardently against [Donald Trump], as the sort of standard-bearer of the Republican Party and as sort of an impostor in the conservative movement, is, frankly, cautiously optimistic. — Margaret Hoover
I don't think I'm identified as the anchorman, I think I'm identified as the impostor anchorman - there's a very clear line there ... I don't think it changes the way they respond. — John Oliver
've always defined a truly alluring story as a journey we're not equipped to take ourselves with a person we're tempted but afraid to emulate. Impostor narratives are exactly that. When they end in disaster, as Clark's did, or as Gatsby's did, we can congratulate ourselves for our own wisdom. We can also experience, safely, at no cost, the terrible thrill of radical self-invention, of trading who we are for who we might be. — Walter Kirn
There are moments when it frightens us, threatening to expose us as inauthentic. Well, the big-time impostors we read about in literature run this risk constantly, flirting with destruction, not just humiliation or embarrassment. It's a spectacle that we can't help but find compelling, and it involves a certain level of courage that we sneakily admire, perhaps. — Walter Kirn
We're all impostors to ourselves. By that I mean that we know instinctively, intimately, the difference between whom we are inside and who we appear to be to others. Most of the time - when we aren't flat lying about something or playing a particularly stylized role in some heightened dramatic situation - this difference between the internal and the external is modest and manageable. — Walter Kirn
When I'm traveling to promote my book, I feel like an artful impostor. What I really am is when I'm in my (painter's) studio and when I'm writing. With actors, it's the same thing. They're kind of artful impostors in public. When you get to know them, they're different people. — Gloria Vanderbilt
The termination is not based on innocence or guilt, but on biology. The sociopath personality is fraudulent. They are impostors within the human species. Killing a sociopath is equivalent to killing God. Neither exists in reality. They are empty shells of imagination, said Chiron — C. J. Anderson
If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work. — Tucker Max
Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense. — Thornton Wilder
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive. — Moliere
I never insert myself into situations where I am completely blind or don't have a single clue about what's being discussed. I don't to be an impostor and just helping for the sake of helping. If I am going to help somebody, I want it to be valuable. And if they don't follow my advice, then they are a frigging idiot. I'm joking. — Charlie Sheen
The Christ is a myth. The Holy Ghost Priestcraft overshadowed the harlot Superstition; this Christ was born; and the Joseph of humanity, beguiled by the Gabriel of credulity, was induced to support the family. But the soldiers of Reason have crucified the illegitimate impostor, he is dead; and the ignorant disciples and hysterical women who still linger about the cross should take his body down and bury it. — John Remsburg
Now, which am I to believe, a book that any impostor might make and call the Word of God, or the creation itself which none but an Almighty Power could make? For the Bible says one thing; and the creation says the contrary. The Bible represents God with all the passions of a mortal, and the creation proclaims him with all the attributes of a God. — Thomas Paine
If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early and the fanatics of the latter ages, the conclusion would be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an impostor. — Thomas Jefferson
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