Humour Quotes

Novelist Peter de Vries like Adlai Stevenson and Mark Twain has suffered from the American assumption that anyone with a sense of humour is not to be taken seriously.

Humour can be dissected as a frog can but the thing dies in the process.

Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Humour is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.

A comedian is a fellow who finds other comedians too humorous to mention.

If it's sanity you're after There's no recipe like Laughter. Laugh it off.

Humour is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Comedy is tragedy - plus time.

Caricature: putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh.

Wit is far more often a shield than a lance.

If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist - I feel like countering with the word seriousist.

Humour is just another defence against the universe.

The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people.

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.

One loses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.

Never follow the crowd....Until and unless you're crossing the road...

Why do we have to humiliate someone to crack a joke??? Do what u would like people to do with u..

He was a Parisian, ’ he said. ‘You can never be sure what Parisians believe in – beyond Paris of course.

Gossip till the cows come home.

My love for Neo-Tokyo is a bulbous massof post-human organic circuitry.Cyperpunk is my mother tongue.My love is a man-machine interface gun.

If I have to face the end of human existence, I want to look totally smoking when it happens. Now shut the hell up.

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.