Humbug Quotes

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

Give, Thoughts, Against

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

Heart, Children, Wonderful

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

Life, Nature, God

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

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

True, Again, Rest

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

Age, Second, Industry

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

Faith, Government, Try

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

Marriage, Destiny, Sense

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

True, Simple, Fairy

Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album.
Carole King

Wait, Until, Everybody

The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.
Whitley Strieber

Christmas, Dad, Mother

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