Humbug Quotes

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

What will the preachers say? ... to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike. - Voltaire

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! - Logan Pearsall Smith

This is all humbug. There is just no deal. - Pervez Musharraf

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

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

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