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Quotes About Humor

Askade took the battertoast, looked at it blearily. "I can't rewire it into a death ray without some extra parts," he said, and took a bite. "Hm. Tastes okay. What's the problem?
~ John M. Ford
Le temps mauvais passe quand on mange et s'amuse—Bad times pass when one eats and is merry. On ne fait pas comme on veut, mais comme on peut—One doesn't do what one wants, but what one can. La moitié du monde se moque de l'autre moitié—Half the world laughs at the other half.
~ John Mack Faragher
I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.
~ John Malkovich
I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.
~ John Marcellus Huston
It'd be funny if one of them was called Gavin. Funny but irrelevant.
~ John Marsden
There are two texts: one from Patrick and one from her mother. Patrick: asdhaosihdkqebrkb. (Butt dial? Or incredibly drunk? Ava doesn't care.)
~ Elin Hilderbrand
He uses air quotes, which makes him seem like such a boomer. "I appreciate it.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
Whenever anyone suggested that she looked as if she'd been dragged through a hedge backwards, she used to groan loudly and ram in a few more pins until her head was a complete porcupine's back of hairpins!
~ Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Everyone here constantly laughed at tragedy, as if insulting misfortune would keep it at bay.
~ Eliot Schrefer
We'll live," Kodiak says as he pulls himself out of the water, lying on his side and wiping water from his thick hair. "We'll get cancer in our twenties, but we'll survive at least until then." "Was that a joke?" I ask, arranging myself next to him and wringing out the hem of my shirt. "Yes. It was a joke, and also it was true. It is a Dimokratia kind of joke.
~ Eliot Schrefer
A deceptively simple blues for when you need to be brought back to earth, reminded who you are. The song opened and opened and kept on opening. You could dance to it, drop down into your pelvis, let it make you funnier, funkier, smarter, skankier, snarkier, stankier. Listen to how smart this girl is! How self-aware and funny. A step ahead of everyone else.
~ Elisa Albert
I really love 'Soapdish.' I wish 'Soapdish' had more of a moment because I felt that that is a really strong, funny movie. Kevin Kline is hilarious in that movie.
~ Elisabeth Shue
See?" I crowed. "I know what I'm doing. Two weeks, tops, and you'll be begging to dip your fries in my shake." "You think?" It took me about a second before I realized I'd done it again. My mouth seriously needed a chaperone.
~ Elise Allen
With all my might, I heave the axe into the ice, just inches from Kristoff's head. Oops.
~ Elise Allen
Four ingredients help make self-control possible: humor, prayer, work, and friends.
~ Elizabeth B. Brown
Spooky," I whispered under my breath, and wondered if the last thing I ever said was going to be a not-very-funny physics joke.
~ Elizabeth Bear
And then I had my greatest stroke of genius since that ham sandwich with pickles that time.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The Merlin's sense of humor would be the death of me yet.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Good thing for me you're not a murderer." I smiled. "I could learn.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Tristen had been only half kidding. Samael's expression hinted that the angel had the other half. Tristen guessed that added up to one complete sense of humour between them.
~ Elizabeth Bear
At least he's laughing. It sounds as if he might strangle on it, but he's laughing. So help me God.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Mammals, apparently, were pretty funny to a carnivorous plant.
~ Elizabeth Bear
If beaks could smirk, she would have sworn him to be smirking.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Oh, the wolf has a sense of whimsy, does he?
~ Elizabeth Bear