Humbug Quotes

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

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much. - P.T. Barnum

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

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

How can you see something that isn't there?' yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet.
'Sometimes it's much simpler than seeing things that are,' he said. 'For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can just as easily see it with your eyes closed. - Norton Juster

From a latest and greatest perspective, some customers might be feeling bah humbug about their Christmas purchases. - Joe Wilcox

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

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