Humbug Quotes

A humbug!!

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

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, I care about evidence, I care about evidence as the reason for knowing what is true. It is true that I come across rather passionate sometimes - and that's because I am passionate about the truth... I do get very impatient with humbug, with cant, with fakery, with charlatans.

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

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

Let us not foist this humbug on the world.

As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.

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.

The whole thing stamps the President (Theodore Roosevelt) as unreliable, a faker, and a humbug. For years he has indulged in lofty sentiments, and violates them all for the sake of satisfying his petty spite.... Thank God, he can't fool all the people all the time, and this country is fast awakening to the real character of this bloody hero of Kettle Hill.

There is only one true thing: Instantly paint what you see.

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

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

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

The connection between humbug and politics is too long established to be challenged.

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.

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.

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

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.

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

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.

I think that the basement where Orwell washed dishes in Paris was his first lesson in anti-humbug - and part of the lesson is that you have to keep renewing it. And Orwell did that.

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

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.