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Quotes About Humor

De mí se dirá posiblemente que soy un escritor cómico, a lo sumo. Y será cierto. No me interesa demasiado la definición que se haga de mí. No aspiro al Nobel de Literatura. Yo me doy por muy bien pagado cuando alguien se me acerca y me dice: me cagué de risa con tu libro.
~ Roberto Fontanarrosa
El humor no debe ser risa. Sí, sonrisa. Y, de ser posible, llanto amargo.
~ Roberto Fontanarrosa
Stai diventando piccolo, – disse Mattia con fatica. – Vuoi dire che sto tornando giovane? – No, piccolo di statura. Piccolo di misura. Stai diventando un nonno piccolo. – Oh, bene! Ecco perché mi sento così leggero, – disse il nonno.
~ Roberto Piumini
Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs: obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign "Jackie Collins" and they go away quite content.
~ Robertson Davies
The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.
~ Robertson Davies
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
~ Robertson Davies
I leaned my head back and closed my eyes. "We're supposed to be celebrating our two-week anniversary tonight." "Uh, news for you, honey - two weeks is no anniversary." "What should I tell him? I don't even want to go." "Tell him you just got a new bra and it's shy around strangers.
~ Robin Brande
Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them.
~ Robin Cook
Forgive me,' the woman says. 'I think I've interrupted you in a private moment.' 'Well,' I reply, instead of yelling something to the effect of :'No kidding lady, I'm in the bathroom!' 'Were you praying?' she asks. 'Sort of.' 'That's what I thought,' the woman says with a nod, 'which is why I spoke up. I like the idea of answering prayers,' she says. 'Plus, I figure I'm so old, I could have been God's babysitter.
~ Robin Epstein
Fitz!' Motley greeted me. 'Hello, stupid!' she added. The
~ Robin Hobb
I don't see any humor in this," she snapped. Rurisk and I looked at one another and grinned foolishly. Smoke.
~ Robin Hobb
De todas las bromas crueles que me había gastado recientemente el destino, decidí que despertar era la más cruel de todas.
~ Robin Hobb
When you can either laugh or cry, you might as well laugh
~ Robin Hobb
You are ill? No. Just Stupid. Ah. Nothing new there. Well, you haven't died from that so far.
~ Robin Hobb
If Todd weren't so absolutely adorable, Christy would have slugged him.
~ Robin Jones Gunn
Fred: "Is that brick wall your boyfriend?" Doug: "Only in my dreams." Fred: "Oh, you too? I'm Fred." Doug: "Doug. I should mention, in all fairness though that Christy's boyfriend is my best friend. He's the brick wall you should be worried about.
~ Robin Jones Gunn
He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough.
~ Robin McKinley
I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?
~ Robin McKinley
The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.
~ Robin Roberts
If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: "Hello. Can't work today, still queer."
~ Robin Tyler
the Creator meant for us to laugh, so humor is deliberately built into the syntax. Even a small slip of the tongue can convert "We need more firewood" to "Take off your clothes.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Nobody likes me," he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest. "Can't imagine why," Quinn murmured. I turned my snort of laughter into a fake cough, which was an embarrassingly feeble attempt at subterfuge when you consider the fact that I didn't have any lungs.
~ Robin Wasserman
If you look at a platypus, you think that God might get stoned, "OK, let's take a beaver and put on a duck's bill. It's a mammal, but it lays eggs. Hey Darwin, kiss my ass!"
~ Robin Williams
I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.
~ Robin Williams