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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug. — William Tecumseh Sherman

Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants. — Alfonso X Of Castile

The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it. — P.T. Barnum

I am not writing to flatter paternal egotism, to echo cant, or prop up humbug; I am merely telling the truth. — Charlotte Bronte

If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug. — Henrik Ibsen

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

Let us not foist this humbug on the world. — Ryan Shawcross

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

It's humbug still!" said Scrooge. "I won't believe it. — Charles Dickens

We have seen the future, and the future is ours. — Cesar Chavez

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

The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint. — W. Somerset Maugham

The Great and Terrible Humbug, — L. Frank Baum

We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug. — Charles Dickens

Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery. — Mark Twain

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

Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember. — Swami Vivekananda

Exactly so!" declared the little man, rubbing his hands together as if it pleased him. "I am a humbug." "But — L. Frank Baum

General literature without the humbug," was the New Yorker's original mission. — Harold Holzer

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically. — Vincent Van Gogh

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse! — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age. — Alfred Nobel

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

Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things.
- Humbug — Norton Juster

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug. — Max Frisch

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

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

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

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug; but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm. — George Eliot

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

Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with. — Josh Billings

I still vote civilization a nuisance, society a humbug and all conventionality a crime. — Isabella L. Bird

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. — Edmond De Goncourt

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself. — Carl Jung

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

We learn and experience ourselves only through suffering; everything else is humbug. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

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 don't know what's the matter with you," she observed to him once; "but I suspect you're a great humbug. — Henry James

Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug. — Charles Dickens