Humbug Quotes

49 Humbug quotes by 37 unique authors

If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug. — Henrik Ibsen
Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs. — P T Barnum
Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album. — Carole King
Back to Basics was absolute humbug, wasn't it? — Edwina Currie
I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I… — Louisa May Alcott
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 nature and spiritual… — Jack LaLanne
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age. — Alfred Nobel
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style. — Alan K. Simpson
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what… — Desmond Tutu
Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things. - Humbug — Norton Juster
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically. — Vincent Van Gogh
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… — Mark Twain
I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and… — W. Somerset Maugham
Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?" "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to… — Charles Dickens
Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse! — Harriet Beecher Stowe
It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when… — W. Somerset Maugham
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 things that are,"he… — Norton Juster
It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and… — Mark Twain
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn! — Logan Pearsall Smith
Why, did you know that if a beaver two feet long with a tail a foot and a half long can build a dam twelve… — Norton Juster
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions. — William Makepeace Thackeray
The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the… — C.S. Lewis
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a… — Oscar Wilde
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically — Vincent Van Gogh

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