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Quotes About Humor

Cricket-Fisher-was starting to prefer her new name. Especially the way Nouel said it, with a little twinkle, as if it were a joke shared.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Oh, don't think we're all seriousness and stealth, Merlin.
~ Elizabeth Bear
His laugh smelled of juniper and loam, and Kit's confused expression showed; it made the little elf laugh the harder.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Elspeth chuckles, that half-swallowed ironic laugh I've got so fond of, and lowers her voice.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Still perfect sixteen, and she glares when Ellie and I burst out laughing.
~ Elizabeth Bear
O'Mara sparkled with humor, a disconcerting expression on such a solid lump of a human form.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Once they get you to laugh the fight is over, because no matter how mad you are, nobody takes you seriously when you're trying to dress them down while giggling.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I'd parasitize you, but my offspring might grow up to have your sense of humor.
~ Elizabeth Bear
At least somebody's sense of humor was intact.
~ Elizabeth Bear
He spoke before she could quite stop laughing and sink him with a comeback. And he was certain, even on brief acquaintance, that she could indeed sink him with a comeback.
~ Elizabeth Bear
They laughed every time they accidentally looked at each other.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Smart, funny Maman. If one must clean one's room every time there are monsters under the bed, pretty soon-voilá!-no monsters!
~ Elizabeth Bear
The Governors did not care about the mortality of the humor-made laws they enforced. Or their irony either.
~ Elizabeth Bear
My taste was terrible, but it was not that bad.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She chuckled and rattled her chain.
~ Elizabeth Bear
You know, the more upset you are, the more sarcastic you get.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Darling, you're ridiculous. Drink.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Was that what it sounded like when a Rashaquin guffawed? It reminded me of a whole orchestra's string section tuning.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The cosmic irony of the moment didn't elude him.
~ Elizabeth Bear
He had never been able to name things himself-he was, after all, in chief a sort of archivist-but as with many archivists, a good irony and a pun delighted him.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Hast made the acquaintance of thy friend Edward the Second's ghost yet, pussycat? They tell me he still screams.
~ Elizabeth Bear
We're fucked," Seeker confirmed. "Welcome to fairytales. Have a nice day. Canapé?
~ Elizabeth Bear
You're going to get fired by the Synarche before they even really hire you, if you keep up this line of thinking." He laughed his light machine laugh. "This line of thinking is why they want me, Haimey.
~ Elizabeth Bear
After all, not even mobsters fixed their kitchen sinks with handguns. They could blow their drains out.
~ Elizabeth Bevarly