Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants. — Alfonso X of Castile Copy Share Image
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery. — Mark Twain 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
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug. — Henrik Ibsen 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
“We learn and experience ourselves only through suffering; everything else is humbug.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann 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
“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
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
A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don't… — P. D. James 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 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 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
“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
“Why don't they live in Illusions?' suggested the Humbug. 'It's much prettier.' 'Many of them do,' he answered, walking in the direction… — Norton Juster 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 would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and… — H. G. Wells 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
“Ossip, I think you are a humbug...you are not even a doctor. But you are funny. Your notion of a humanity universally… — Joseph Conrad 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn! — Logan Pearsall Smith 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
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