Humbug Quote by Charles Dickens Download Open image ““We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug.”” — Charles Dickens ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humbug
“If I don't save her from the hands of that humbug," he said, aloud, as he went to bed, "she is lost. But I… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
“...but I don't need to go into a church and kiss a silver platter and reach into my pockets to fatten a pack of… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“There she blows!-there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Humming is the sign of the truly asocial man, for no other sound is at once so soothing and pleasant to its maker and… — Howard McCord Copy Share Image
“A shame that these images had become iconic, a tune we were all tired of humming.” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“I live in an apartment. I told you, I'm broke. I couldn't buy spats for a hummingbird.” — Robert Blake Copy Share Image
“I found the hum of his computer rather soothing, but it was the complete lack of unicorn carcasses that really pulled the room together.” — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
“I don't like the idea of people who don't sing to themselves when they're all alone. They're too sober for me. At least hum--… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The wheels rolled on, and rolled down by the Monument, and by the Tower; and by the Docks; down by Ratcliffe, and by Rotherhithe;… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself. — Carl Jung 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 things that… — Norton Juster 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. He has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album. — Carole King Copy Share Image
It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
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 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 the progress… — H. G. Wells 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 what's true,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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