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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age. -- Alfred Nobel
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. -- Edmond de Goncourt
Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album. -- Carole King
Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse! -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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
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 they are. -- Desmond Tutu
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
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
Back to Basics was absolute humbug, wasn't it? -- Edwina Currie
Let us not foist this humbug on the world. -- Ryan Shawcross
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm. -- George Eliot
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. -- Mark Twain
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn! -- Logan Pearsall Smith
The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it. -- P. T. Barnum
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age -- Alfred Bernhard Nobel
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself. -- Carl Jung
Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery. -- Mark Twain
Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants. -- Alfonso X of Castile
Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember. -- Swami Vivekananda
The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with. -- Josh Billings
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug. -- Henrik Ibsen
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
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
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
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
We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness. -- Hermann Hesse
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
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
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
[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
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

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