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Quotes About Humor

The best thing you've ever done for me Is to help me take my life less seriously, it's only life after all.
~ Indigo Girls
I'm trying to tell ya something bout my life,,maybe give me insight between black and white,,and the best thing you'd ever done for me is to help me take my life less seriously--it's only LIFE afterall...
~ Indigo Girls
Hun likte å le, og hun syntes synd på folk - Dickens-siden ved deg, vesle mor, pleide han å si.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
But he's joking, he doesn't mean it. When Lucas makes a joke he means it.
~ Iris Murdoch
I am the nonsense priest of the nonsense god!
~ Iris Murdoch
The book is quite serious and quite funny. (Most novels are.)
~ Iris Murdoch
It was like a comedy by Shakespeare. All the ends of the story were being bound up in a good way.
~ Iris Murdoch
Renton looks at her and sees her pain and anger. It cuts him up. It confuses him. Kelly has a great sense of humour. What's wrong with her? The knee–jerk thought: Wrong time of the' month is forming in his head when he looks about and picks up the intonations of the laughter around the bar. It's not funny laughter. This is lynch mob laughter. How was ah tae know, he thinks. How the fuck was ah tae know?
~ Irvine Welsh
Her mum thought gourmet cooking was putting a load of fish fingers under the grill instead of in the frying pan.
~ Irvine Welsh
Ah took a pish oan the cunt, then ah felt bad aboot Albo's cel so ah sais tae him oan the wey oot, cunt's only went n pished hissel but, eh.
~ Irvine Welsh
Ah nivir bother asking ma father who ah kin shag, ah idly observe. - Glad tae hear it, Sylvia says in clipped tones as Ali stifles a giggle. - Me neither... groans Matty, -...unless it's muh ma. - That's only good manners, ah shrugs.
~ Irvine Welsh
This is a bit like being accused of shagging the sister ah don't have.
~ Irvine Welsh
Kev shuddered. This was crazy, but there it was; his name, spelt by an insect... — Boab? Is that really you? Fuckin hell! Eh, buzz twice fir aye, once fir naw. Two buzzes. — Did eh, what's his name, did God dae this? Two buzzes. — Whit the fuck ur ye gaunny dae? Frantic buzzing. — Sorry Boab... kin ah git ye anything? Scran, likesay?
~ Irvine Welsh
You never know if he's being ironic or dyslexic.
~ Irvine Welsh
if yir gaunny git hung fir stealin a sheep ye might as well shag it n aw.
~ Irvine Welsh
Buckin' is one ay Na Na's favourite words likesay, along wi 'pish'. Naebody says 'pish' like Na Na. She sortay drags oot the sssshhh, it's likesay, ye kin see the steam rising oaf the yellay jet as it hits the white porcelain, ken?
~ Irvine Welsh
This cunt's allergic tae water, especially if ye mix it wi fucking soap.
~ Irvine Welsh
HOUSE! That's-you-Mark. He's-goat-hoose. OWER-HERE! Wis-nae-eve-in-gaunn-ae-shout-oot. Cu-moan-son. Git-a-fu-kin-grip-ay-yir-sel. Ah smile benignly at Jocky, all the time wishing a prompt and violent death oan the nosey cunt.
~ Irvine Welsh
Mel hilariously tries tae look a bit demure, but ah clock her shootin Bobby the glance a closing-time drunk gies a fish supper.
~ Irvine Welsh
The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.
~ Irving Berlin
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
~ Isaac Asimov
I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.
~ Isaac Asimov
and he wreaked havoc among the buttered toast as he said it.
~ Isaac Asimov
The elderly man, flushed with pleasure, was recounting in voluble fashion his experiences and impressions. His wife joined in periodically, with meticulous corrections involving completely unimportant points; these being given and taken in the best of humor.
~ Isaac Asimov