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Quotes About Humor

It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.
~ Al Alvarez
The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A lot of people are actually surprised when I do open up my mouth and smile a little bit, and crack a joke and drink a beer.
~ Tim Kang
I was just thinking of bunding up Cecily and feeding her to the ducks in Hyde Park," said Will, pushing his wet hair back and favoring Jem with a rare smile.
~ Cassandra Clare
..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.
~ Henry James, Roderick Hudson
If you want to do a movie about aliens coming down to Earth nowadays, you need to do it with a smile.
~ Sune Rose Wagner
It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.
~ Ray Comfort
People need the court jester, so I keep that smile on and keep going out there to do what I do.
~ Richard Simmons
Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.
~ Lord Chesterfield
You're sure he's not a vampire?' Claire said.'I've seen movies. They're sneaky.' She was kidding. Eve didn't smile.
~ Rachel Caine
Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
~ Edward Abbey
Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?
~ Robert Adams
God? Nope." requel's smile told me she was joking around to make this easier for me "santa clause? No again.
~ Claudia Gray
Our eyes met across the crowded room, like in the movies, except we didn't share a knowing smile and race into each other's arms. Instead I fell into the trash can.
~ Julie Anne Peters
You're impinging on my private space," I said, inching backward. Patch gave a barely-there smile. "Impinging? This isn't the SAT, Nora.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
But the biggest fake of the year, Paul Begala's last smile
~ Dennis Miller
I've always wanted to entertain people, or make them smile, or tell a joke that would make them laugh. I don't think there was this deep down burning passion to be an actor.
~ Chris Demetral
Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.
~ Ellen Hopkins
We need to have a little humor in our lives. .If the time ever comes when we can't smile at ourselves, it will be a sad time.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Are you OK?" I asked. "I think so." Logan stared at me, and a smile pulled up his lips. "But maybe you should give me mouth-to-mouth, just to make sure.
~ Jennifer Estep
I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.
~ Jim Butcher
'Tropic Thunder' is one of my favorite movies of all time. 'Blazing Saddles.' Anything that will get me to smile.
~ John Cena
Puns are just another form of sarcasm, which may or may not make you - smile, giggle, or laugh.
~ Aniruddha Sastikar
Evangelicals always assume that humor and faith are contradictory. It's OK to smile, to be nice, but not frivolous.
~ Mike Yaconelli