Humour Quotes - Page 19

• A British villain never loses their sense of humour.

  Tom Hooper

  Villain, British, Loses

  4 Copy quote

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

  William Ralph Inge

  God, Should, Understood

  "Outspoken Essays" (Second Series) by William Ralph Inge, ("Confessio Fidei"), 1922.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• It had to be hammered home quite a bit because I didn't see any humour in my life at all.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Home, Humor

  4 Copy quote

• A careful and sympathetic sense of humour can also be a great asset when there is need to get out of difficult situations gracefully.

  John Allen Fraser

  Difficult Situations, Needs, Assets

  John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

  Stanley Kubrick

  History, Political, Gangsters

  In Guardian 5 June 1963

  84 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would like, with the sun shining through the window on a crisp early-autumnal mid-morning, with a sufficiency of Monster Cappucino flowing in my veins to prompt minimal sentience, to declare my view for the record that Drummer Jokes are a cruel and pernicious form of humour introduced to the world by under-humoured persons lacking in sensitivity and concern for other drummers.

  Robert Fripp

  Morning, Views, Concern For Others

  16 Copy quote

• I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.

  Gerard Butler

  Girl, Heart, Sweetness

  33 Copy quote

• I was trying for years to woo people through humour, but it seems flash cars are much easier.

  Stephen Merchant

  Years, People, Car

  Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

  James Franco

  Art, World, Comedy

  4 Copy quote

• Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.

  Catherine Tate

  Children, Awkward, Use

  "What I'm not is a cheery person". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.

  Catherine Tate

  Personality, Red, Would Be

  "What I'm not is a cheery person". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of introspection. I see some element of disappointment; I see a sense of humour, but also something that is faintly ridiculous; and I see somebody who is frightened of being found out and thought lightweight.

  Robert Winston

  Disappointment, Mirrors, Self

  "What I See in the Mirror: Robert Winston". www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me - I want him to be authentic.

  Emma Watson

  Men, Quick Wit, Want

  12 Copy quote

• I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

  David Walliams

  Thinking, Comedy, Demeaning

  5 Copy quote

• When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

  Lars von Trier

  School, Film, Form

  4 Copy quote

• I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.

  Amy Tan

  Skills, People, Survivor

  "Ghosts at my shoulder" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. March 02, 2001.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Thinking, Attractive Things, Laughing

  21 Copy quote

• You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour.

  Doug Stanhope

  Laughing, Should

  27 Copy quote

• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

  Gloria Steinem

  Hilarious, Heartbreak, Funny Love

  Attributed

  66 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like to think that even with some of the more intense ones sometimes there is humour in there, you try to make a complete human being, whether the guy is good or bad.

  Ray Liotta

  Thinking, Guy, Trying

  "Wild Hogs - Ray Liotta interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think British humour is very cruel, and gay humour is very cruel. I think the two go hand-in-hand and that's why they mix so well in England. I think that's why you get so many gay comedians in England that are accepted so well because British humour is very cruel. I love it.

  Jason Sellards

  Gay, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.theguardian.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My childhood was lonely. Both my parents were away a lot, working, and the maid basically raised me. And I think that's where a lot of my comedy comes from. Not only was the maid very funny and witty, but when my mother came home I'd use humour to try and get her attention. If I made mommy laugh, then maybe everything would be all right. I think that's where it [my comedy] all started.

  Robin Williams

  Mother, Witty, Lonely

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

  T. S. Eliot

  Knowledge, Technology, Information

  49 Copy quote

• When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Beauty, Mother, Doctors

  20 Copy quote

• Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Science, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2387, Delphi Classics

  20 Copy quote

  Show source