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Humbug Quotes

We have looked into the future and the future is ours.

We have looked into the future and the future is ours.

Cesar Chavez
Humbug
Cesar Chavez's address to the Commonwealth Club, esl-bits.net. November 9, 1984.

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

Edouard Manet
Paint, Humbug, True Things

The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it.

P. T. Barnum
People, Bigger, 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.

P. D. James
Believe, Politician, Humbug
P. D. James (2010). “A Taste for Death”, p.42, Vintage

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
Paint, Begin Again, Humbug

Let us not foist this humbug on the world.

Ryan Shawcross
World, Humbug
"International: Are We Ready?". content.time.com. December 09, 1946.

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

Henrik Ibsen
Lying, Writing, Humbug
Henrik Ibsen (1905). “Letters of Henrik Ibsen”

Back to Basics was absolute humbug, wasn't it?

Edwina Currie
Basics, Humbug, Back To Basics

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

Mark Twain
Talking, Patriotism, Humbug
Notebook, 26 May 1896

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

Josh Billings
World, Quacks, Humbug

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