Humbug Quotes

49 quotes by 37 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. — Mark Twain
The voice of the people is the voice of humbug. — William Tecumseh Sherman
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
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
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
Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug. — Max Frisch
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm. — George Eliot
The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it. — P T Barnum
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
Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember. — Swami Vivekananda
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
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
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
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself. — Carl Jung

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