Let us not foist this humbug on the world.

Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.

— Josh Billings

The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it.

— P. T. Barnum

I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about what's true,…

— Richard Dawkins

I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the progress…

— H. G. Wells

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically

— Vincent Van Gogh

Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.

— P. T. Barnum

[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug…

— George Orwell

“We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug.”

— Charles Dickens

It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were…

— Leo Tolstoy

Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album.

— Carole King

Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?" "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you…

— Charles Dickens

The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has…

— Anonymous

How can you see something that isn't there?" yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. "Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing things that…

— Norton Juster

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

— Carl Jung