Humour Quotes

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.

Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark.

I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.

I'm pretty irreverent. There is a lot of need to find humour in life. Although I'd never be as disrespectful to laugh at someone's expense.

For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.

I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes.

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.

Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

NC passed law against global warming science, therefore it's not happening. So I'm ignoring Twitter's 140-character limit, so it's not happ

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

Jesus paid for our sins, so let's get our money's worth.

I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems

Life is serious but art is fun!

One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

Humour is God's special gift to humanity. Handy, because it turns out to be necessary.

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It's almost impossible to do it without any humour

I enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying all the time.

The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.

All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.

John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!

I have a sack of hate mail that I want to respond to. One day, when I’m tired or tipsy, I will respond and tell them what I think.

Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.

Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.

We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.

Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.

There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.

Paperwork wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for all the paper. And the work.

Knock yourself out... Or rather, don't.

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.