Top 75 Quotes About Humbug
#1. We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug.
Charles Dickens
#2. It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.
Leo Tolstoy
#3. The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.
George Bernard Shaw
#4. 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 gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
Oscar Wilde
#5. Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants.
Alfonso X Of Castile
#6. Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.
Francis Alexander Durivage
#7. A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!" cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice of Scrooge's nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach. "Bah!" said Scrooge, "Humbug!
Charles Dickens
#8. Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
Max Frisch
#9. There is no law that sermons shall be the preacher's own, but there is an eternal law against all manner of humbug. Pardon the word.
George MacDonald
#10. Humbug! Most things free-born will submit to anything for a salary; therefore, keep to yourself and don't venture on generalities of which you are intensely ignorant.
Charlotte Bronte
#12. 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
#13. Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album.
Carole King
#14. Puddleglum!" said Jill. "You're a regular old humbug. You sound as doleful as a funeral and I believe you're perfectly happy. And you talk as if you were afraid of everything, when you're really as brave as - as a lion.
C.S. Lewis
#15. Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug; but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.
George Eliot
#16. Love is a farce; matrimony is a humbug; husbands are domestic Napoleons, Neroes, Alexanders,
sighing for other hearts to conquer, after they are sure of yours.
Fanny Fern
#17. The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it.
P.T. Barnum
#18. People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
Edmond De Goncourt
#19. Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.
Josh Billings
#20. The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing but pass useless resolutions.
David Lloyd George
#21. I think everyone is throwing happy stuff at you, and that's when you come over all humbug. It's happy stuff in your face, happy stuff is being sold to you ...
Colin Firth
#22. He gave me a look, but in the dusk I couldn't make out very well what it conveyed. Then he bent over his mother, kissing her. "My news isn't particularly satisfactory. I'm going for you." "Oh you humbug!" she replied. But she was of course delighted. CHAPTER
Henry James
#23. [T]hey somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbugs: because the admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a toady and humbug.
Charles Dickens
#24. [You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.
George Orwell
#25. He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier
Sam Manekshaw
#26. Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things.
- Humbug
Norton Juster
#27. The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.
Carl Jung
#28. 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 the rest is humbug.
Edouard Manet
#29. 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 of democratic freedom.
Winston Churchill
#30. 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 nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.
Eugene Ionesco
#32. 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 shall save her."
He put out his lamp and felt a need to insult Erik in the dark. Thrice over, he shouted:
"Humbug! ... Humbug! ... Humbug!
Gaston Leroux
#34. There is such a mistaken notion abroad in this country that the individual who makes sharp remarks must be sincere, while the one who says pleasant things must be more or less a humbug.
J. E. Buckrose
#35. 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 things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.
Jack LaLanne
#36. I still vote civilization a nuisance, society a humbug and all conventionality a crime.
Isabella L. Bird
#37. General literature without the humbug," was the New Yorker's original mission.
Harold Holzer
#38. Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
Mark Twain
#39. How can I help being a humbug ... when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done?
L. Frank Baum
#40. The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope.
Bertrand Russell
#41. 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 be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.
Charles Dickens
#42. 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 ...
Joseph Conrad
#43. I knew, on some level, that what I was seeing was the real Oz. I had pulled back the curtain and stepped through it, but instead of finding a humbug wizard, I'd found the controls to the whole operation - and it turned out the whole operation was made out of what appeared to be magical silly string.
Danielle Paige
#44. You're more than that," said the Scarecrow, in a grieved tone; "you're a humbug." "Exactly so!" declared the little man, rubbing his hands together as if it pleased him. "I am a humbug.
L. Frank Baum
#45. As soon as the economic freedom which the market economy grants to its members is removed, all political liberties and bills of rights become humbug.
Ludwig Von Mises
#46. In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.
Vincent Van Gogh
#47. I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.
Mahatma Gandhi
#48. The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.
H.G.Wells
#49. Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#50. Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
Alfred Nobel
#51. The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.
Charles Dickens
#52. I am not writing to flatter paternal egotism, to echo cant, or prop up humbug; I am merely telling the truth.
Charlotte Bronte
#53. 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 they are.
Desmond Tutu
#54. 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 resolutions.
Mark Twain
#55. The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.
W. Somerset Maugham
#56. Why don't they live in Illusions?' suggested the Humbug. 'It's much prettier.'
'Many of them do,' he answered, walking in the direction of the forest once again, 'but it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.
Norton Juster
#57. I don't know what's the matter with you," she observed to him once; "but I suspect you're a great humbug.
Henry James
#58. The Wizard of Oz was a humbug. He's not great and powerful. He just pretends to be great and powerful. The Wicked Witch of the West is greater and powerfuller. She's got flying monkeys. She's like a mad scientist. She even has a secret weakness. Water is like Kryptonite to her.
Kelly Link
#59. 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 uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.
Conrad Black
#60. If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
Henrik Ibsen
#61. Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.
Swami Vivekananda
#63. 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
#64. It's humbug still!" said Scrooge. "I won't believe it.
Charles Dickens
#65. Exactly so!" declared the little man, rubbing his hands together as if it pleased him. "I am a humbug." "But
L. Frank Baum
#66. What a terrible thing it is to try to let off a little bit of truth into this miserable humbug of a world!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#67. A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don't actually believe it.
P.D. James
#68. Back to Basics was absolute humbug, wasn't it?
Edwina Currie
#70. Tell him next, that crimes cause their own detection. There's another bit of copy-book morality for you, Fosco. Crimes cause their own detection. What infernal humbug!
Wilkie Collins
#71. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.
Cesar Chavez
#72. Inside, the festivities would continue, probably well into the night, with flirtation and merriment and gratuitous use of mistletoe. It was an inexpressibly wearying thought.
Lauren Willig
#73. This faulty light fitting at the front door with the dangerously flickering bulb looks rather festive. Who says I don't do Christmas?
R.D. Ronald
#74. I actually hate Christmas," says Eileen. "Everybody has this idea you have to have a good time, like happiness comes in a ruddy packet." Her face is flushed with heat. "One time, I stayed in bed all day. That was one of my best Christmases.
Rachel Joyce
#75. Scrooge replied that the calendar was an arbitrary governor of a man's life and that the new year began anew whenever one decided to live his life in a new way.
Charlie Lovett
