P.T. Barnum — "Well, doctor, and do I now act like a 'pink powder puff'?"
Well, doctor, and do I now act like a 'pink powder puff'?
Get This Quote & Author's Image Illustrated On:
Click any product to generate a realistic preview. Up to 3 at a time.
* Initial load can take up to 90 seconds — revising the preview in another color is nearly instant.
Kitchen
Apparel
Other
More from P.T. Barnum
"I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall show, and all the tinsel shall glitter."
"Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung."
"A little reflection will show that humbug is an astonishingly wide-spread phenomenon — in fact almost universal."
"The great art of money-getting consists in knowing how to attract the public."
"Need I explain to my own beloved countrymen that there is humbug in politics? Does anybody go into a political campaign without it?"
About P.T. Barnum (1810-1891)
American showman and Barnum & Bailey Circus co-founder, whose autobiography popularized Gilded Age commercial spectacle. Closely associated with James Anthony Bailey (his circus business partner). For an intellectual contrast, see Mark Twain, American author and Gilded Age satirist — Twain's The Gilded Age (1873, with Charles Dudley Warner) named the entire era of corrupt commercial spectacle Barnum embodied — Twain's later writing repeatedly attacked Barnum-style hucksterism as the era's moral disease.