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Quotes About Humor

I was funny—ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless.
~ Claire Messud
I think you killed me," he announced. "Then I hope there's an afterlife," she teased back.
~ Claire Thompson
Fai: *punches Kurogane* That was payback, Kuro-sama! Kurogane: *grins* You're gonna get punched out, you creep!
~ CLAMP
Hey, if you're going to sleep in the middle of the road, I'm going to sit on you.
~ CLAMP
A floating catfish cake doesn't sink!
~ CLAMP
You'd have to say his bad point was not having any bad points. Don't tell him I said so.
~ CLAMP
Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice.
~ Clare B. Dunkle
Hello sheriff, give me another nose
~ Clark Coolidge
Give me B movies or give me death!
~ Clive Barker
There was no harm done; and what would a Resurrection be without a few laughs?
~ Clive Barker
What I do know is that I have never found clowns remotely funny. I am not alone in this, I think. More people find clowns disturbing or distressing rather than raucously amusing. Is it that the nature of human existence has changed so radically in the last century or so that what was funny to our grandparents and great-grandparents is now tragic or terrifying?
~ Clive Barker
Not a whisper of flatulence would dare this man's bowels.
~ Clive Barker
what would a Resurrection be without a few laughs?
~ Clive Barker
He offered her a grin designed for better teeth.
~ Clive Barker
To my new friends. May misfortune follow you the rest of your lives, but never catch up.
~ Clive Cussler
What do you expect me to do, leap across space and brain them with the jawbone of an ass? Or maybe they'll go away if I throw ricks at them?
~ Clive Cussler
That madwoman threatened to shoot off my testicles.
~ Clive Cussler
IF GOD MEANT TEXANS TO SKI, HE'D HAVE MADE COWSHIT WHITE.
~ Clive Cussler
I knew it. We've expired and gone to Disneyland.
~ Clive Cussler
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
~ Colette
They asked me how I would be paying and I told them that if past experience was anything to go by probably with my life and the thin girl with the thick spectacles reached deep into her soul for a smile and repeated the question.
~ Colin Bateman
Alison was snoring gently, and I was thinking about what would happen if I pinched her nose. And covered her mouth. The head is so full of holes, and the ear, nose and throat are supposedly connected; you would wonder why it isn't possible to breathe through your ears.
~ Colin Bateman
I tried talking to Jesus, but he just put me on hold...
~ Colin Hay
Mr Chubb did not so much mind his subordinates being impertinent–that was, after all, a form of acknowledging inferiority; what he dreaded was that any of them might say something really funny without his recognising it.
~ Colin Watson