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title: "78 Humbug Quotes by 57 authors"
description: "Browse 78 Humbug quotes by 57 authors. Discover the best Humbug sayings and thoughts."
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> [The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-tecumseh-sherman/the-voice-of-the-people-is-the-voice-of-humbug/)

[William Tecumseh Sherman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-tecumseh-sherman/)

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> [“Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/bah-said-scrooge-humbug/)

[Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/)

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> [Let us not foist this humbug on the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ryan-shawcross/let-us-not-foist-this-humbug-on-the-world/)

[Ryan Shawcross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ryan-shawcross/)

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> [“Vox populi, vox Humbug.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-t-sherman/vox-populi-vox-humbug/)

[William T. Sherman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-t-sherman/)

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> [Back to Basics was absolute humbug, wasn't it?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwina-currie/back-to-basics-was-absolute-humbug-wasn-t-it/)

[Edwina Currie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwina-currie/)

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> [Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfonso-x-of-castile/sensible-men-no-longer-belive-in-miracles-they-were-invented-by/)

[Alfonso X of Castile](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfonso-x-of-castile/)

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> [The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-jung/the-more-intelligent-and-cultured-a-man-is-the-more-subtly-he-can/)

[Carl Jung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-jung/)

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> [Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/talking-of-patriotism-what-humbug-it-is-it-is-a-word-which-always/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josh-billings/take-the-humbug-out-of-this-world-and-you-haven-t-much-left-to-do/)

[Josh Billings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josh-billings/)

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> [If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henrik-ibsen/if-i-cannot-be-myself-in-what-i-write-then-the-whole-is-nothing-but/)

[Henrik Ibsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henrik-ibsen/)

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> [Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-beecher-stowe/talk-of-the-abuses-of-slavery-humbug-the-thing-itself-is-the-essence/)

[Harriet Beecher Stowe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-beecher-stowe/)

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> [“We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/we-must-have-humbug-we-all-like-humbug-we-couldn-t-get-on-without/)

[Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/)

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> [“We learn and experience ourselves only through suffering; everything else is humbug.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-kristian-goldmund-aumann/we-learn-and-experience-ourselves-only-through-suffering-everything/)

sir kristian goldmund aumann

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> [I think everyone is throwing happy stuff at you, and that's when you come over all humbug. It's happy stuff in your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-firth/i-think-everyone-is-throwing-happy-stuff-at-you-and-that-s-when-you/)

[Colin Firth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-firth/)

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> [“If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/if-i-could-work-my-will-every-idiot-who-goes-about-with-merry/)

[Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/)

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> [Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/vanity-fair-is-a-very-vain-wicked-foolish-place-full-of-all-sorts-of/)

[William Makepeace Thackeray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-makepeace-thackeray/)

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> [A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-d-james/a-politician-is-required-to-listen-to-humbug-talk-humbug-condone/)

[P. D. James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-d-james/)

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> [ Only laughter can blow \[a colossal humbug\] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/only-laughter-can-blow-a-colossal-humbug-to-rags-and-atoms-at-a-blast/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edouard-manet/there-is-only-one-true-thing-instantly-paint-what-you-see-when-you-ve/)

[Edouard Manet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edouard-manet/)

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> [I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-gissing/i-hate-with-a-bitter-hatred-the-names-of-lentils-haricots-those/)

[George Gissing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-gissing/)

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> [“How can I help being a humbug," he said, "when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-frank-baum/how-can-i-help-being-a-humbug-he-said-when-all-these-people-make-me/)

[L. Frank Baum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-frank-baum/)

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> [“Why don't they live in Illusions?' suggested the Humbug. 'It's much prettier.' 'Many of them do,' he answered, walking in the direction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norton-juster/why-don-t-they-live-in-illusions-suggested-the-humbug-it-s-much/)

[Norton Juster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norton-juster/)

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> [As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bulwer-lytton-1st-baron-lytton/as-a-general-rule-people-who-flagrantly-pretend-to-anything-are-the/)

[Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bulwer-lytton-1st-baron-lytton/)

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> [I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/i-would-like-any-other-scientist-willingly-change-my-mind-if-the/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/i-am-prepared-to-maintain-that-honesty-is-essentially-an-anarchistic/)

[H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-lalanne/you-don-t-have-to-call-it-god-or-jesus-that-s-religious-humbug-to-a/)

[Jack LaLanne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-lalanne/)

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> [“Ossip, I think you are a humbug...you are not even a doctor. But you are funny. Your notion of a humanity universally…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/ossip-i-think-you-are-a-humbug-you-are-not-even-a-doctor-but-you-are/)

[Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/)

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> [The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/the-social-contract-is-nothing-more-or-less-than-a-vast-conspiracy-of/)

[H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/)

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> [It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/it-boils-down-to-this-we-should-have-done-with-humbug-and-let-war-be/)

[Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/)

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> [Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-v-debs/every-one-of-the-aristocratic-conspirators-and-would-be-murderers/)

[Eugene V. Debs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-v-debs/)

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> [Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-v-debs/every-solitary-one-of-these-aristocratic-conspirators-and-would-be/)

[Eugene V. Debs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-v-debs/)

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> [Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/will-a-day-come-when-the-race-will-detect-the-funniness-of-these/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-camus/the-society-of-merchants-can-be-defined-as-a-society-in-which-things/)

[Albert Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-camus/)

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> [The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-man-is-a-humbug-a-vulgar-shallow-self-satisfied-mind-absolutely/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/it-is-pleasure-that-lurks-in-the-practice-of-every-one-of-your/)

[W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/)

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> [I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louisa-may-alcott/i-mean-that-it-is-more-natural-for-me-to-be-wicked-than-virtuous-when/)

[Louisa May Alcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louisa-may-alcott/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norton-juster/how-can-you-see-something-that-isn-t-there-yawned-the-humbug-who-wasn/)

[Norton Juster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norton-juster/)

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> [What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/logan-pearsall-smith/what-humbugs-we-are-who-pretend-to-live-for-beauty-and-never-see-the/)

[Logan Pearsall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/logan-pearsall-smith/)

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> [Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-t-barnum/witchcraft-is-one-of-the-most-baseless-absurd-disgusting-and-silly-of/)

[P. T. Barnum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-t-barnum/)

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> [Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/ignorance-is-not-so-damnable-as-humbug-but-when-it-prescribes-pills/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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                        "text": "“Ossip, I think you are a humbug...you are not even a doctor. But you are funny. Your notion of a humanity universally putting out the tongue and taking the pill from pole to pole at the bidding of a few solemn jokers is worthy of the prophet…”",
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                        "text": "Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense! These... tyrants, these red-handed robbers and murderers, the \"patriots,\" while the men who have the courage to stand face to face with them, speak the truth, and fight for their exploited victims - they are [called] the disloyalists and traitors. If this be true, I want to take my place side by side with the traitors in this fight.",
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                        "text": "Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - \"The Chronicle of Young Satan,\" Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts",
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