Quotes About Humor

Your anger can be 49 percent and your comedy 51 percent, and you're okay. If the anger is 51 percent, the comedy is gone.

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.

I think sadness and anger are really fertile ground for comedy. No one is really interested in a happy person doing comedy.

One does not kill by anger but by laughter.

He would get up in the midst of the crowded shop, interrupting the conversation, and start outside to relieve himself. "All who can't swim, mount the highest bench," he would cry out, "for the great he-elephant will now make water!

Satyr," he says, "is a sort of Glass, wherein Beholders do generally discover every body's Face but their Own; which is the chief Reason for that kind Reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up? All the time.

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

You're looking so well, darling. You really are. They've done a marvelous job. I don't know what sort of cream they've put on you down at the morgue, but I want some. Honestly, you look better than you have in years. You look like you're alive!

But why is laughter so creative? It reacts to contradiction with delight is why, thus opening the road to new discoveries.

I want to die in my sleep like my friend... Not yelling like the passengers in his car.

Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.

How it was I don't understand, but we always seemed to be getting, with the best of motives, in one another's way. When I wanted to go up-stairs, there was my wife coming down; or when my wife wanted to go down, there was I coming up. That is married life, according to my experience of it.

A sense of humor, being born of perspective, bears a near kinship to philosophy; each is the soul of the other.

Protestantism and beer have dulled German wit.

A funny yet interesting read, Will Self knowa his stuff and must do a lot of deep research.

The only circumstances in which I would write a roman a clef would be if I'd lost my fucking car keys.

In death there are smaller premises, littler ironies.

You'll grow devilish fat upon this paper-diet!

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. (quoted in Life After Life)

Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

Yes, we laughed, because I have learned this at least during these four years: that it really requires an empty stomach to laugh with, that only when you are hungry or frightened do you extract some ultimate essence out of laughing just as the empty stomach extracts the ultimate essence out of alcohol.