Humour Quotes

Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.

People still talk about a British sense of humour, or French slapstick or how the Germans have no sense of humour - and it's just rubbish. I do strongly feel that we are all the bloody same.

The one thing that makes 'Torchwood' work so brilliantly and makes it a little bit above the rest of all other sci-fi dramas out there is that we have a sense of humour.

I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.

I fell in love with her for her sense of humour. If she ever lost her sense of humour, I would have to dump her. Then I'd kill myself because I couldn't live without her.

You should never try irony or self-effacing humour.

Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them

Thus, I've created humour.

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.

I like girls with a good sense of humour. Girls who are a lot of fun to be around.

A sense of humour is common sense dancing.

The most important quality in a partner is a sense of humour.

As a bandleader, I try to pass on the same family values that I grew up with: help people, hang on to your sense of humour, be tolerant and keep your judgments to yourself.

I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian.

I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama.

Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.

Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish.

I refuse not to have a sense of humour.

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

There are a lot of filmmakers I love whose work doesn't inspire mine at all. For example: Quentin Tarantino. From his films you can see that he has a wicked sense of humour, and I love that!

Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear transplanting.

Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.

Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.

She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.

I played like a child!

musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

Humour is the best way to make the unbearable bearable.

Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.

My friends know that I have a silly sense of humour and I can be a little vulgar at times - but just with people that I am close to.

My wife is way funnier than I am. As much as I don't really feel I share a sense of humour with my family, I definitely share one with her - we find the same things funny.

There's such a unique humour in Wales that I just love and miss in Los Angeles.

Humour is completed by an audience.

We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.

Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.

You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.

Making art is like humour - very moment dependent.

I was trying for years to woo people through humour, but it seems flash cars are much easier.

Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.

Humour is human. Why? Well, because the Philosopher, Aristotle, says so.

All I've ever tried to do is get the best out of people and to bring a bit of humour into it. Unlike, say, 'The X-Factor,' which may be great TV, but has no humour at all.

I love Andre 3000 from OutKast. I think we'd complement each other, but I'm hoping he's got a good sense of humour.

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

A British villain never loses their sense of humour.

My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kinsella its fast, all-out comedies, such as the Shopaholic series.

EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.

Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite.

That's where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that's what I like. I've always felt that's what I would like to do.

I am in fear, there is no humour left in public life because of this fear.

Humour is a big part of our lives as well as our music. Making it fun is the most important thing.

I like to always have humour in whatever I do.