“If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
As soon as the economic freedom which the market economy grants to its members is removed, all political liberties and bills of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I think everyone is throwing happy stuff at you, and that's when you come over all humbug. It's happy stuff in your… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“How can I help being a humbug," he said, "when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence;… — Francis Alexander Durivage Copy Share Image
The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a… — Sam Manekshaw Copy Share Image
The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things. - Humbug — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
Aeroplanes are not designed by science, but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not… — Walter Guido Vincenti Copy Share Image
The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper,… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
there is such a mistaken notion abroad in this country that the individual who makes sharp remarks must be sincere, while the… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image