Leon Redbone

I got out of the music industry many years ago. I had a charlatan for a producer who I wanted nothing to do with. He's dead now, so I guess I can't beat that horse any more. It left a very bad taste in my mouth, so I just went on about my business doing what I do and not involving myself with record companies, except for distribution.

American Musician

Joseph Brodsky

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan... In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential.

American Poet

Simon McBurney

In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very well indeed for the entertainment of everybody else.

English Actor

Dominic Cummings

Inevitably, the world of 'communications' / PR / advertising / marketing is full of charlatans flogging snake oil. It is therefore very easy to do things and spend money just because it's conventional.

British Public Servant

Peter Ackroyd

If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud.

British Author

Les Dennis

On the old passports, mine used to say 'entertainer', but now on forms I say 'actor'. But I still worry that people will think I'm a charlatan.

Anton Chekhov

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Russian Dramatist

Thomas Sowell

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

American Economist

Harper Reed

You can tell charlatans when they say 'big' in front of everything.

American Businessman

Dan Bongino

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

American Educator

Charlatan is often used to describe deceitful behavior, especially in professions claiming expertise.

Deception Key

Using 'charlatan' implies strong disapproval and is not a word taken lightly.

Negative Connotation

Often used in contexts like medicine, spirituality, or sales where trust is crucial, but abused.

Specific Contexts

 happen to other people not to themselves and finally overconfidence also fosters and promotes a narcissistic culture a narcissistic society where we commonly mistake confidence by competence which is why in any domain or profession of expertise there are so many charlatans

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 to their detriment. They deceive these people, costs them a lot of money, cost them a lot of emotional anguish. Billions of dollars are spent every year, all over the globe, on these charlatans.

Homeopathy, quackery and...

 I'm posing as a psychic to demonstrate how easy it is for charlatans to sucker people using a technique they call cold reading I want to say his name starts

Charlatan

Deception Key

Negative Connotation

Specific Contexts

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