Quotes About Humor

It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

Inside, Katherine opened Sarah's refrigerator and, from between leathery unwrapped burrito halves and Tupperwares holding bluing sludge, took out a wheel of cheap Brie still in its plastic and set it down on the counter. "I like your apartment," she said. "Sorry it's so messy," said Sarah. Katherine shrugged. "Bukowski said that people with clean kitchens have detestable spiritual qualities.

Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.

You're about to learn thirty ways to fast-forward through frustration, turn impatience into empathy, handle hassles with appropriate humor, think on your feet, keep your cool under fire, and continue to care-even if other people don't.

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the up button.

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

It's simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Insanity is hereditary. You can get it from your children.

This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them.

My pecker's a poet." "How's that?" "He's a longfellow.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness. Oh? Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs. Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four.

This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.

Coffee isn't my cup of tea.

A jest breaks no bones.

I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.