Humour Quotes - Page 22

• I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that.

  Norman Wisdom

  Simple, Long, Goes On

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For my part I think the Learned, and Unlearned Blockhead pretty equal; for 'tis all one to me, whether a Man talk Nonsense, or unintelligible Sense, I am diverted and edified alike by either; the one enjoys himself less, but suffers his Friends to do it more; the other enjoys himself and his own Humour enough, but will let no body else do it in his Company.

  Mary Astell

  Men, Thinking, Suffering

  Mary Astell (2002). “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies”, p.254, Broadview Press

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• Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.

  E. B. White

  Fire, Play, Hot

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• My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad.

  Norman Wisdom

  Children, Three, Needs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Making art is like humour - very moment dependent.

  Michael Denton

  Art, Moments, Dependent

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• I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

  Bojana Novakovic

  Laughing, Inappropriate

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• Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Heart, Men

  William Shakespeare (2005). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.2906, OUP Oxford

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• It seems like it has kind of taken off where people are saying 'oh it's a female character' and it just kind of grew. But my intent in saying that was humour. You know, you have to show Link when you create a trailer for a Zelda announcement.

  Eiji Aonuma

  Taken, Character, People

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• A good marriage is loving someone in a lot of different circumstances. Respect for them and their views and ideas and the life that they're leading with you. Shared values and interests. A good sense of humour. And a little volatility along the way.

  Edward Kennedy

  Views, Ideas, Loving Someone

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• When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

  Christopher Morley

  Real, Book, Love Life

  Christopher Morley (2015). “Parnassus On Wheels”, p.24, Booklassic

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• You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance

  Lars von Trier

  Distance, Littles, Steps

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• But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Writing, Thinking, Doubt

  Thomas De Quincey (2009). “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar”, p.107, The Floating Press

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• Relationship humour gets the most laughs. If I'm able to get the women laughing, men will have to laugh along because they would be scared to death.

  Vir Das

  Men, Laughing, Would Be

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• I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

  Alexei Sayle

  Spring, Thinking, Ideas

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• When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff going on, then I would crack a joke to defuse the situation.

  Matthew Perry

  Emotional, People, Cracks

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• Humour allows us to see that ultimately things don't make sense. The only thing that truly makes sense is letting go of anything we continue to hold on to. Our ego-mind and emotions are a dramatic illusion. Of course, we all feel that they're real: my drama, your drama, our confrontations. We create these elaborate scenarios and then react to them. But there is nothing really happening outside our mind! This is karma's cosmic joke. You can laugh about the irony of this, or you can stick with your scenario. It's your choice.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Karma, Letting Go, Laughter

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• I did it a little bit in college, but now I've been doing it more. But yeah, it's not, I think you can definitely have a sense of humour about it. Like a lot of the time I'll finish my set with 'Sandstorm' by Darude - do you know that song? That's a funny song. People also go apeshit when you play it. But at the same time, it's not like the whole thing is a joke.

  Chris Baio

  Song, College, Thinking

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• One of the things the police officers told us in the first minutes of being with them is that the way that they cope with their job is by using a lot of inappropriate humour. It's really a lovely opportunity to try to challenge our ideas of what it is to deal with complex issues, and that they're not always dower. Having that kind of humour along with the pathos for what people are going through is a really nice challenge.

  Kristin Lehman

  Jobs, Nice, Opportunity

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• Sometimes you feel amazing about life and other times you just feel fat and depressed, so I think it's good to be honest about that and to make light of it, I think humour is important, nobody's perfect.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Thinking, Light, Perfect

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• As a bandleader, I try to pass on the same family values that I grew up with: help people, hang on to your sense of humour, be tolerant and keep your judgments to yourself.

  Jools Holland

  People, Trying, Helping

  "Jools Holland: My family values". Interview with Maureen Patton, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

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• There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

  Ade Edmondson

  Effectiveness, People, Doubt

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• Love and a good sense of humour strengthen the entire body; remember your cells respond to your input.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Cells, Body, Input

  Barbara Marciniak (2004). “Path of Empowerment: Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos”, p.174, New World Library

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• A sense of humour is common sense dancing.

  Clive James

  Common Sense, Dancing, Common

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• I thought it was funny. I always thought Star Wars and Indiana Jones were basically comedies. The humour came out of their relationships; it came out of the fact that we were basically types.

  Harrison Ford

  Stars, War, Indiana

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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• I guess my height has hurt me as much as it's helped me. In comedy people don't mind casting tall women next to shorter men. It adds to the humour.

  Allison Janney

  Hurt, Men, People

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