The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album. — Carole King Copy Share Image
Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you… — Edouard Manet Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?" "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial!… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
I'm a songwriter first...In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I… — Carole King Copy Share Image
It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
I have found life highly competitive. I accept it. It is useless, merely a hypocritical humbug, to sincerely wish your opponent to… — Percy Cerutty Copy Share Image
Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
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… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
Why, did you know that if a beaver two feet long with a tail a foot and a half long can build… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
I am glad that the country world...retains a power to use our English tongue. It is a part of its sense of… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn! — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse! — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
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