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“This faulty light fitting at the front door with the dangerously flickering bulb looks rather festive. Who says I don't do Christmas?”
― R.D. Ronald

“If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug.”
― Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

“How can I help being a humbug. . .when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done?”
― L. Frank Baum

“Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug; but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.”
― George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical

“How can I help being a humbug," he said, "when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done?”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wizard Of Oz

“As I have tried to show, modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug. The attraction of this way of writing is that it is easy. It is easier â€� even quicker, once you have the habit â€� to say In my opinion it is a not unjustifiable assumption that than to say I think.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

“Scrooge replied that the calendar was an arbitrary governor of a man's life and that the new year began anew whenever one decided to live his life in a new way.”
― Charlie Lovett, The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Continued

“There are always humbugs hungry for ink. It is the nature and bane of paranormal research. If we throw out all evidence for the sake of a few charlatans, the world would be a poorer place, and nothing would be solved.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose