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• The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife's feelings and deprive his daughter than inconvenience a pub bar full of strangers. He wished there could be one memory of his dead child which wasn't tainted with guilt and regret.

  P. D. James

  Daughter, Hurt, Children

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.101, Vintage

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• We don't really know how the game was invented, though there are suspicions. As soon as we discover the culprits, we'll let you know

  Bruce Pandolfini

  Games, Chess, Culprit

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• I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form.

  John Lydon

  Sex, Thinking, Pistols

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• When I feel well and in a good humour, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as my mind might wish.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Sleep, Night, Mind

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• Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust, loyalty. It's about giving. It's for sharing the good times, but also the tough times, hurt, grief, sadness.

  Quentin Bryce

  Loyalty, Hurt, Honesty

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• This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.

  William Shakespeare

  Crush, Men, Elephants

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes : with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.229

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• It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Grace, Doe, Looks

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.

  Helen Mirren

  Python, Littles, Finesse

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• An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  White, Errors, Analysis

  "The bright side of chess". Book by Irving Chernev (p. 114), 1952.

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• Place the contents of the Chess box in a hat, shake them up vigorously, pour them on the board from a height of two feet, and you get the style of Steinitz

  Henry Bird

  Two, Feet, Style

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• CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Science, Heirs

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2369, Delphi Classics

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• I suggest taking the high road and have a little sence of humour and let things roll off your back. I think that's very important.

  Sally Ride

  Thinking, Bad Ass, Important

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• OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Jail, Doors

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.154, 谷月社

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• According as the man is, so must you humour him.

  Jean Racine

  Men

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• The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Sympathy, Self, People

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• It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Learning, Science, Men

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• There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

  Aristotle

  Funny, Humor, Humility

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• The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the mechanism of the inimitable puppets that are going to perform. How I used to laugh at Simon Tapperwit, and the Wellers, and a host more! But I can't do it now somehow; and time, it seems to me, is the true test of humour. It must be antiseptic.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Laughing, Doe

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• 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.

  Dean Koontz

  Lost, Dump, Ifs

  Dean Koontz (2009). “Relentless: A Novel”, p.6, Bantam

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• Miss Grantham's sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it, exclaiming in tragic accents:'Oh Heavens! I am betrayed!' His lordship blenched; both he and miss Laxton regarded her with guilty dismay. Miss Grantham buried her face in her handkerchief, and uttered one shattering word: 'Wretch!

  Georgette Heyer

  Missing, Heaven, Betrayed

  Georgette Heyer (2011). “Faro's Daughter”, p.202, Random House

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• Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.

  Brooke Shields

  Self, Defence, Mechanism

  "Brooke Shields: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

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• I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.

  Nancy Springer

  Witty, Kind, Reader

  Nancy Springer (2009). “The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline: An Enola Holmes Mystery”, p.44, Penguin

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• This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour. (Autobiography, 1771)

  Benjamin Franklin

  Good Day, Men, Pork

  Benjamin Franklin (1986). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.170, Penguin

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

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Names

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