Humour Quotes - Page 24

• My secret to having a happy relationship is having a sense of humour and giving one another space: your own space.

  Iris Apfel

  Space, Giving, Secret

  Source: www.thegayuk.com

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• I am in fear, there is no humour left in public life because of this fear.

  Narendra Modi

  Public Life, Left

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

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• I guess a lot of police keep their sanity by developing black humour.

  Peter James

  Police, Black, Sanity

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• Humour's the pay-off for all that existential horror.

  Tim Winton

  Pay, Horror, Existential

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• Humour is God's special gift to humanity. Handy, because it turns out to be necessary.

  Tim Winton

  Humanity, Special, Turns

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• Elderly people, I have found, when they're being honest, are also scumbags, and enjoy a little prurient humour as well.

  Rob Delaney

  Elderly, People, Littles

  Source: www.comedy.co.uk

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• I find it much easier to write comic-books than lyrics actually because it's a natural dialogue. Writing song lyrics is not natural but over the years I know what I need to know to get it done. I find it quite easy to capture a character and use my own personality and humour.

  Scott Ian

  Song, Character, Writing

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.

  Horace Walpole

  Scotch, Void, Wit

  Horace Walpole (1866). “The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford”, p.67

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• Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.

  Augustus William Hare

  Mind, Body, May

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.223

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• The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.

  Sara Davidson

  Laughter, Pain, Distance

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• The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.

  Joan Miro

  Liberty, Expansion, Contradiction

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• There just isn't enough televised Chess

  David Letterman

  Chess, Enough

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• Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.

  Elvis Costello

  Expression, Three, Letters

  Song: Man Out Of Time

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• I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Humor, Men, Doors

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• When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Morning, Men, World

  Marcus Aurelius (2013). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.28, Read Books Ltd

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• The high point of the act is when he (Uri Durov) puts his head inside the bear's huge jaws. I wouldn't even try that with my agent.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Trying, Agents

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• I don't think I've ever made any conscious decision to be a comic artist, but to me there's something quite anarchic about comedy.

  David Shrigley

  Artist, Thinking, Decision

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• In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, 4th Of July, America

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1024, GENERAL PRESS

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• There are a lot of filmmakers I love whose work doesn't inspire mine at all. For example: Quentin Tarantino. From his films you can see that he has a wicked sense of humour, and I love that!

  Chika Anadu

  Inspire, Wicked, Example

  "Chika Anadu On Her Debut ‘B for Boy,’ Transitioning To Film, Telling ‘Women’s Stories,’ More". Interview with MsWOO, www.indiewire.com. October 29, 2013.

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• I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.

  Steven Moffat

  Thinking, Stories, Comedy

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• Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Voice, Sorrow, Pathos

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.84, University of Toronto Press

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• 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.

  Stephen Leacock

  Tragedy, World, Collapse

  Stephen Leacock (2010). “My Remarkable Uncle”, p.114, New Canadian Library

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• I believe in tension and release, in that if you stay in the the same tone and mode and intensity for too long, it actually becomes monotonous. When you change up your pace or your humour level, then the release is welcome... I believe that's my biggest job: tone control, and maintaining enough unity so that it all feels like one movie and all the scenes belong together, and yet diversity so that emotional and narrative interest is maintained.

  Patricia Rozema

  Jobs, Believe, Emotional

  "Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Patricia Rozema". "Mansfield Park" DVD, 2000.

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• I miss my grandmother every day. I miss her vitality, her interest in the lives of others, her courage and determination, her perceptive wisdom, her calm in the face of all difficulties, her steadfast belief in the British people and above all her unstoppable sense of mischievous humour.

  Prince Charles

  Determination, Grandmother, People

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• Humour is a big part of our lives as well as our music. Making it fun is the most important thing.

  Adam Faulkner

  Fun, Important

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