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Quotes About Humor

I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire." "Not just a vampire," I said, "a cheesy vampire. Do you think they got the point?
~ Jim Butcher
Rip her dress off!" Bob shouted. Bob the Skull takes paperback romances very seriously. The next page turned so quickly that he tore the paper a little. Bob is even harder on books than I am. "That's what I'm talking about!" Bob hollered, as more pages turned.
~ Jim Butcher
Butters blinked at looked at Thomas. My God, he said. You've been shot. Thomas hooked a thumb at Butters. Check out Dr. Marcus Welby, MD, here. I'd have gone with Doogie Howser, maybe, I said. Split the difference at McCoy? Thomas asked. Perfect.
~ Jim Butcher
That's Doctor Smart-ass. I didn't spend eight years in insult college to be called Mister.
~ Jim Butcher
Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.
~ Jim Butcher
Bob, I said over my shoulder. Tell her it's me. Can't, Bob said in a dreamy tone. Boobs.
~ Jim Butcher
Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.
~ Jim Butcher
Your face looks like a sack of purple potatoes
~ Jim Butcher
I kicked the door open, staff held ready to fight, and shouted, And I'm all outta bubble gum!
~ Jim Butcher
Speak for yourself," Murphy said. "I just gave my last grenade to a Valkyrie and ordered her to blow up a kraken. I'm having a ball.
~ Jim Butcher
My brother threw up his hands. What does a woman need to do, Harry? Rip her clothes off, throw herself on top of you, and shimmy while screaming, 'Do me, baby!'? he shook his head. Sometimes you're a frigging idiot.
~ Jim Butcher
There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.
~ Jim Butcher
I flicked a comb through my wet hair, for all the good it would do, and said, How do I look? Mostly human, she said. That's what I was going for.
~ Jim Butcher
She was also mad. Loopy as a crochet convention.
~ Jim Butcher
I leaned closer and gave her the look I usually save for rampaging demons and those survey people at malls.
~ Jim Butcher
The water near me stirred and then a Sharkface rose up out of it as if on an elevator, slow, his mouth tilted up into a small smile. He stood there on the water perhaps five feet away from me. His eyeless face looked smug. Warden, he said. Asshat, I replied.
~ Jim Butcher
Because your balls are in a vise and I'm the only one who can pull them out," I said. He arched an elegant silver eyebrow. "Okay," I said. "That came out a little more homoerotic than I intended." "Indeed," said the Merlin.
~ Jim Butcher
Ohhhh," Molly said wisely. "Those are fun-time handcuffs, not bad-time handcuffs. I gotcha.
~ Jim Butcher
Where is your unit? Murphy asked. I wiggled my eyebrows at her. Right where it's always been, dollface.
~ Jim Butcher
With a sense of humor like that, you could make a living as a garbage man anywhere in the country.
~ Jim Butcher
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I said. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett.
~ Jim Butcher
I rode the dinosaur into the stream of zombies following in the Wardens' wake and let her go to town. Sue chomped and stomped and smacked zombies fifty feet through the air with swinging blows of her snout. Her tail batted one particularly vile-looking zombie into the brick wall of the nearest building, and the zombie hit so hard and so squishily that it just stuck to the wall like a refrigerator magnet, arms and legs spread in a sprawl.
~ Jim Butcher
I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you.
~ Jim Butcher
I blinked slowly at that notion. "A honeymoon free of your mother-in-law." "Worth more than gold or jewels," Hades said.
~ Jim Butcher