Humbug Quotes
49 quotes by 37 authors
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New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug…
— Mark Twain
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He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a…
— Sam Manekshaw
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I have found life highly competitive. I accept it. It is useless, merely a hypocritical humbug, to sincerely wish your opponent to win. If you…
— Percy Cerutty
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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 war is being…
— Eugene V. Debs
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I'm a songwriter first...In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been…
— Carole King
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There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is…
— Eugene Ionesco
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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.
— Mark Twain
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became…
— Whitley Strieber
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I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state…
— Winston Churchill
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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 begin again. All…
— Edouard Manet
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Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
— Max Frisch
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Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.
— George Eliot
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The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it.
— P T Barnum
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No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings are accomplished.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.
— Swami Vivekananda
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From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence --…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials…
— Conrad Black
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I am glad that the country world...retains a power to use our English tongue. It is a part of its sense of reality, of its…
— Henry Beston
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The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.
— Carl Jung
Who Wrote These Humbug Quotes
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