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Quotes About Humor

It's true we might not have met if I'd not been thrown literally at her feet, but we've more in common than my isolation. There is a certain fellow feeling too, our minds dovetail in matters of humor and taste.
~ Edith Layton
She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.
~ Edith Wharton
His life, for years past, had been mainly a succession of resigned adaptations, and he had learned, before dealing practically with his embarrassments, to extract from most of them a small tribute of amusement. (The Triumph Of The Night)
~ Edith Wharton
Lily laughed. "Merci du compliment!
~ Edith Wharton
It was his misfortune to be in love with his wife; and this state of mind (in itself sufficiently ridiculous) and the shifts and compromises to which it reduced him, were a source of endless amusement to the humorists.
~ Edith Wharton
Theodore," Edith remarked, after he collided with the Sagamore Hill windmill, "I wish you'd do your bleeding in the bathroom.")
~ Edmund Morris
And William laughed with his special blend of mischief, compounded of humor, spite, and sadness in a ratio even he wasn't sure of but that he mixed by feel.
~ Edmund White
They all said the way to a man's heart was through his asshole.
~ Edmund White
I believe in Hell because it's doctrinal, she said with a smile, but I don't think anyone's in it.
~ Edmund White
You're a right-looking eejit
~ Edna O'Brien
Jenny is super duper" was the answer back. Jenny knew how to humor the missus, calling her a slip of a girl and drawing attention to every feature of her attire, down to the velvet shoes, that would you believe it were called mules, mules with a field of flowers and medallions on them, like a carpet.
~ Edna O'Brien
The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
~ Edward Albee
MARTIN (Serious) Am I too young for Alzheimer's? STEVIE Probably. Isn't it nice to be too young for something?
~ Edward Albee
I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.
~ Edward Gorey
Thrippsy pillivinx, Inky tinky pobblebockle abblesquabs? - Flosky! beebul trimble flosky! — Okul scratchabibblebongibo, viddle squibble tog-a-tog, ferrymoyassity amsky flamsky ramsky damsky crocklefether squiggs. Flinkywisty pomm, Slushypipp
~ Edward Lear
There once was a student named Bessor, Whose knowledge grew lesser and lesser. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he's a college professor!
~ Edward Lear
On the coldest day of winter, I wouldn't give you the steam off my shit
~ Edward Lee
His penis swelled in his pants to the extent that it felt like a hamster that had died and entered rigor mortis.
~ Edward Lee
Oh Lord, we thank Thee for this thy gift of lobster Newburg. And grant us also, if it be Thy will, control of the Hudson Ohio Railroad.' 'But we ain't wanting control of the Hudson Ohio, Sean softly objected. 'True,' said Gabriel Love, 'but the Almighty doesn't need to know that yet.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
I think I'll get cremated here myself,' said Patrick. 'No need to rush,' said Johnny. 'I was going to wait until I died.' 'Good thinking.
~ Edward St Aubyn
only as long as we can laugh at ourselves are we nobody else
~ eecummings
I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.
~ Albert Brooks
I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.
~ Albert Brooks
I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.
~ Albert Brooks