Humour Quotations | Page 2

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

There is nothing worse than annotated humour,

My opponent is Short and the match will be short.

I played like a child.

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

Thus, I've created humour.

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.

The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.

A British villain never loses their sense of humour.

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day.

People don't get my sense of humour.

What's happened to humour? We're becoming American. Everyone gets so angry over everything.

All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour, and all such humour, has saved or at least greatly served the world.

Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.

All humor is rooted in pain.

He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

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.

Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won?

Humour is...the all-consoling and...the all-excusing, grace of life.

His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.

If you can find humour in anything, you can survive it

Only six need be attempted.

What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again

HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.

HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.