John Grant Quotes

Anything that's signed by me on EBay is a forgery and not authentic.

I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

The worst crime is faking it.

Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them.

Politics is a great art. It succeeds at convincing the people that they have to pay for what has been stolen from them.

Nicolas Maduro is a fraud. He is a fake. He is a charlatan.

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

Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature.

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.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.

Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it.

I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud.

Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.

To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.

I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

You bookish little pervert.

Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Sincerity is the most important thing in acting. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!