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Quotes About Joking

But it is a rule of life, alas, that nobody is kidding.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
People?" Claire burst out laughing. "Silly, we're not canimals.
~ Ann M. Martin
I'll be the first to admit it, the life I'm leading is basically a joke. I should probably be cooler about it, but I can't fake it, you know?
~ Andy Roddick
I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.
~ Art Garfunkel
I don't know if I'm ever going to quit playing football. I'm just kidding.
~ Adam Vinatieri
I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.
~ John Goodman
You know, you have a lot of people - I've met a lot of people in the past, I've gone to private schools, you know, encountered different people who think that it's OK to make comments, insensitive comments about your race because they're joking. And think that if they're joking and they say it, you know, good-naturedly, that things will fly.
~ Issa Rae
I like to tease people. I hate when people do it to me, though.
~ Charlie Murphy
Don't ever joke about serious matters, it could become an issue, even a problem.
~ Ryan Pack
You know I don't read novels,' she said and, trying to equal his jesting mood, went on: 'Besides, you one said it was the height of bad form for husbands and wives to love each other.' 'I once said too God damn many things,' he retorted abruptly and rose to his feet.
~ Margaret Mitchell
You know I don't read novels,' she said and, trying to equal his jesting mood, went on: 'Besides, you once said it was the height of bad form for husbands and wives to love each other.' 'I once said too God damn many things,' he retorted abruptly and rose to his feet.
~ Margaret Mitchell
each hour is a room of shame, and I am swimming, swimming, holding my head up, smiling, joking, ashamed, ashamed, like being naked with the clothed, or being a child, having to try to behave while hating the terms of your life.
~ Sharon Olds
I'm going to be exposed, aren't I? (Acheron) I don't know. You planning on dropping your pants around me? If so, warn me first. I don't want to go blind. (Savitar)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Excuse me? Jess asked in disbelief. This is Frozen Zarek I'm talking to, right? Not some weird pod person? He shook his head at Jess's joking. It's me, dickless. Hey, now, that's way too personal. I don't need to know that much about you.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Nice knees, bud, but the hairy legs could use a Bush Hog. (Kyrian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You're seriously not joking?" – Sundown "Really? How many more times are you going to ask me that? I could be on a beach right now with my wife, son, and daughter, baking in the sun while they frolic and play. Am I? No. I'm here, and I want nothing more than to yank you around with bullshit 'cause this gets me off more than my wife running in a bikini." – Zarek
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Mama Lo can get a bit nasty whenever I play with the cubs. She thinks I'm going to eat one, but they're not to my taste. Too hairy. Now if she'd let me skin one, I might be interested. (Simi) He laughed in spite of himself. Are you joking about that? (Gallagher) Oh no. I never joke about hairy food. It's disgusting. (Simi)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
And there's one more thing. (Gabriel) Neutering? (Zeke)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
So my tantrums made good television. They also made me look a fool. The Observer's television critic said that if he ever found himself sitting next to me at a dinner party he would probably drive a fork through my hand. And I don't think he was joking.
~ John Humphrys
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
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
Killing me still on the agenda, tough girl?" I walked over to the desk. "Yup, right here next to buy Brendan a leash." "Glad to know you have a sense of humour." "I wasn't joking." I mumbled, knowing he would be able to hear me.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
~ Arthur Miller
You're such a nerd." She laughed cruelly at me. "What?" I said. "I'm sorry." I laughed too, just in case it was a joke, but right away I felt hurt. "LPT," she said. "TIMATOV. ROFLAARP. PRGV. Totally PRGV." The youth and their abbreviations. I pretended like I knew what she was talking about. "Right," I said. "IMF. PLO. ESL." She looked at me like I was insane. "JBF," she said.
~ Gary Shteyngart