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
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn! — Logan Pearsall Smith 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
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'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
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
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm. — George Eliot 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
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
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
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions. — William Makepeace Thackeray 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
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
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
Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants. — Alfonso X of Castile Copy Share Image
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly… — Mark Twain 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
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
