Snake Oil Salesman

Famous quotes containing the words snake, oil and/or salesman:

    “There’s a snake lurking in the grass.”
    —Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70–19 B.C.)

    “I bade, because the wick and oil are spent
    And frozen are the channels of the blood....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “[Oliver North is a] document-shredding, Constitution-trashing, Commander in Chief-bashing, Congress-thrashing, uniform-shaming, Ayatollah-loving, arms-dealing, criminal-protecting, résumé-enhancing, Noriega-coddling, Social
    Security-threatening, public school-denigrating, Swiss-banking-law-breaking, letter-faking, self-serving, election-losing, snake-oil salesman who can’t tell the difference between the truth and a lie.”
    —Charles S. Robb (b. 1939)