Humorists Quotes

Humour can be dissected as a frog can but the thing dies in the process.

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

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience...

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.

The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichev...

Caricature: putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Humour is just another defence against the universe.

Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating th...

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in p...

The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.

Humour is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.

Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in...

The best definition of humour I know is: humour may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the in...

You encourage a comic man too much and he gets silly.

Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good or that he cannot swim or shoots badly wit...

Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

We are all here for a spell get all the good laughs you can.

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Humour is the only test of gravity and gravity of humour for a subject which will not bear railler...

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth...

Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.