Quotes tagged ‘Humbug’

(3 total)

“Nephew Fred: A merry Christmas, Uncle Ebenezer! God save you. Ebenezer Scrooge: God save me from Christmas. It's another humbug. Nephew Fred: Christmas a humbug? Come, now. I'm sure you don't mean that. Ebenezer Scrooge: And I'm sure that I do mean that. Merry Christmas, indeed. What reason have you…”

— Leslie Bricusse, Ebenezer Scrooge, Albert Finney, imdb.com

“Many people desired to be something they are not . . . She was, without knowing it, such an adept in society humbug, that she even humbugged herself. She betrayed herself as she betrayed others, and told little soothing lies to her own conscience as she told them to her friends.”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

“Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it. In such an employment as that, one might reasonably hope to find all things done in honesty and sincerity. Not at all, my ardent and inquiring friends, there is a scientific humbug just as large as any other. We have all heard of the…”

— P.T. Barnum, amazon.com