Humour Quotes - page 3

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous. (Bahman Ghobadi)
One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour. View quote
Colin Baker
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss. View quote
Edward Dowden
Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well. View quote
Ian St John
I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama. View quote
Jorge Garcia
Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives. View quote
Jorge Garcia
It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour. View quote
Keenen Ivory Wayans
I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly. View quote
George Murray
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. View quote
Paloma Faith
I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great - once I could have a giggle, I settled down. View quote
Parminder Nagra
I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh. (Shirley Henderson)
I was trying for years to woo people through humour, but it seems flash cars are much easier. View quote
Stephen Merchant
I think that Americans find the Australian humour and the energy of Australians very refreshing - we are quite self-deprecating, we're light-hearted and can have a laugh. View quote
Teresa Palmer
While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour. View quote
Yahoo Serious
It seemed too easy to claim that there was nothing new under the sun, that ... our spear-wielding ancestors had been as wise and good as ourselves and that the onward march of rational thought had brought with it nothing but tragedy. Did any of these arguments take into account Ariane's profile on her way up? Did they credit the impeccable logic of her hydraulic systems? And most of all, did not such bromides merely betray the resentment of a defeated and unimaginative class? I felt my allegiances shift to the engineers and technicians around me, these new medicine men who often sported baseball caps, and had a tendency towards unsophisticated humour. What astonishing creatures they were! What extraordinary horizons they had opened up! View quote
Alain de Botton
You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour. View quote
Doug Stanhope
The national character of the three kingdoms was strongly marked in my army. I found the English regiments always in the best humour when we were well supplied with beef; the Irish when we were in the wine countries, and the Scotch when the dollars for pay came up. This looks like an epigram, but I assure you it was a fact, and quite perceptible; but we managed to reconcile all their tempers, and I will venture to say that in our later campaigns, and especially when we crossed the Pyrenees, there never was an army in the world in better spirits, better order, or better discipline. We had mended in discipline every campaign, until at last (smiling) I hope we were pretty near perfect. View quote
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
He made one laugh sometimes by speaking the truth, but this is a form of humour which gains its force only by its unusualness; it would cease to amuse if it were commonly practised. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
I am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation. There is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
From his entrance, in medias rape, Vytas Juozapaitis had a compelling presence as both seductive and dangerous Don Juan. He had a dash, swagger, a sense of humour, and a strong, lustrous voice. He's a good actor too. You believed both in the way he was driven by his carnality and in his self possession. In short, he embodied the music. (Vytautas Juozapaitis)
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it. View quote
George Saintsbury
A careful and sympathetic sense of humour can also be a great asset when there is need to get out of difficult situations gracefully. View quote
John Allen Fraser
Such souls are, in these days, getting somewhat out of humour with the world. Your very Byron, in these days, is at least driven mad; flatly refuses fealty to the world. The world with its injustices, its golden brutalities, and dull yellow guineas, is a disgust to such souls: the ray of Heaven that is in them does at least pre-doom them to be very miserable here. Yes:-and yet all misery is faculty misdirected, strength that has not yet found its way. The black whirlwind is mother of the lightning. No smoke, in any sense, but can become flame and radiance! Such soul, once graduated in Heaven's stern University, steps out superior to your guinea. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
If I had not become a painter, I would surely have become a clown.. .. because I make people laugh.. .. Faces deformed by suffering, humour or work. Often crazy. They then became imaginary, when I adorned them with movements free colours depending on the head. The colour too become clown-like. View quote
Karel Appel