Quotes About Humor

Tolkien imagined The Lord of the Rings as a book very much like The Hobbit: aimed at a young audience, built around humor and pranks, and modeled on the structure of a folktale or fairy story. He even called it "the Hobbit sequel" or "the new Hobbit." He

Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!

Wizard Howl, said Wizard Suliman. I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman.

It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.

Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.

You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!

In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers.

It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters.

But whoever heard of enchanted bacon anyway?

On the other hand, it is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.

Sorry I gave you a fright. Howl seemed more used to holding babies than Sophie was. He rocked Morgan soothingly and stared at him. Morgan stared, rather balefullt, back. My word, he's ugly Howl said. Chip off the old block Howl! said Sophie. But she did not sound angry.

Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.

You won't believe the amount of trouble we get because Howl keeps falling in love, Michael said, We've had law suits, suitors with challenges, fathers with cudgels, mothers with rolling pins. And aunts. Aunts are terrible, they go for you with hat pins.

People kept coming up to her all day, saying, "Is it true what Nina says—you come from a broken home?" "Broken right in half," Polly replied to each one. "There's a hole in the middle where the garden is. You get rained on trying togo upstairs." (p. 154)

You know this could kill me, don't you?' 'Look on the bright side,' said Howl. 'It could be me it kills.

I hope your bacon burns," Calcifer said, muffled under the pan.

His bedroom door did escape him. "What a lie that was!" Howl remarked as he walked into the wall. "My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me." He walked into the wall several times more, in several different places, before he discovered his bedroom door and crashed his way through it. Sophie could hear him falling about, saying that his bed was dodging.

The best advice for dealing with cats is: Always greet them politely. Don't make an unnecessary fuss over them. Be on the alert for signs they want to communicate with you. Never, ever laugh at them! If you're lucky, you might just find that your cat will decide that you are a magical person worthy of attention. Or then again, maybe they'd just like some fish.

If you annoy me, watch out! I shall put you in a book as a baddie and then make people laugh at you.

How do you retain a spirit of affection and humor in a crazed, homicidal, unpredictable society?

Listen, I'd rather lie naked in a plowed field under an incontinent horse for a week than have to read that paragraph again!

If death is truly a curse,' Spock said, as soberly as some power pronouncing a hundred years of sleep, but with a glint of private, serene humor in his eyes. 'There is little logic in condemning something one has not experienced...or does not remember experiencing.

There is nothing little," she said with great dignity, "about my husband." Sarek did not at first understand the amused ripple that went through the crowd of reporters standing around. Certainly he was tall by Earth standards. He had to have it explained to him

You set, Bones? Ouch, McCoy said. I assume that pun was meant to make me feel better, or else accidental.