A Quote by P. D. James

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

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P. D. James
English - Novelist
August 3, 1920 - November 27, 2014

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Max Frisch

The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Edwina Currie

Let us not foist this humbug on the world.

Ryan Shawcross

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

P. T. Barnum

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

Josh Billings

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

Alfred Nobel

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

Henrik Ibsen

The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Mark Twain

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

George Eliot

Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants.

Alfonso X of Castile

Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.

Swami Vivekananda

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

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

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