Good Humour Quotes

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  A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

  Hugh Sidey

  Funny, Happiness, Happy

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• There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Inspiring, Laughter

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories”, p.59, Penguin

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• Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Inspiring, Depression, Funny Inspirational

  "On the Art of Business". Book by James Howard Merkel, Abdul Wahab Al-Falaij, p.66, February 1, 2004.

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• It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Laughter, Humor

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.64

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• The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

  Charles Dickens

  Self Confidence, World, Conquer

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• And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good humour and sensibility and I think that's okay. I don't care about the past, I'm a musician with ambition.

  Robert Plant

  Song, Ambition, Thinking

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• For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.

  David Hume

  Purpose, Genius, Littles

  David Hume, J. Y. T. Greig (2011). “The Letters of David Hume:”, p.46, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Sympathy, Self, People

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• Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Health, Loss

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• Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon,
  If you listen to popular rumour;
  From morning to night he's so joyous and bright,
  And he bubbles with wit and good humour!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Funny, Morning, Night

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Family Fool”

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• We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.

  Agnes Repplier

  Intelligent, Conversation, Vistas

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• There is a certain artificial polish, a commonplace vivacity acquired by perpetually mingling in the beau monde; which, in the commerce of world, supplies the place of natural suavity and good-humour, but is purchased at the expense of all original and sterling traits of character.

  Washington Irving

  Character, World, Natural

  Washington Irving (1854). “The Works”, p.262

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• But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me, 'Major Barbara' is the greatest of all the plays in that it starts from the rational and proceeds to the ecstatic in a spectacular way, and leaves you very confused if you cling to Euclidean logic.

  Tony Kushner

  Confused, Love Is, Play

  "Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified'". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2011.

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• A stiff letter galls one like a stiff shirt collar -- whilst a sheet garnished here and there with a careless blot -- and here and there a dash -- but in the main full of excellent matter, is like a clever fellow in a dirty shirt whom we value for the good humour he brings with him and not for the garb he wears.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Clever, Dirty, Letters

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• It's all rot that they put in the war-news about the good humour of the troops, how they are arranging dances almost before they are out of the front-line. We don't act like that because we are in a good humour: we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Troops, News

  Erich Maria Remarque (2000). “All quiet on the western front and related readings”

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• Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without reply, and ravages without resistance. Without good humour virtue may awe by its dignity and amaze by its brightness, but must always be viewed at a distance, and will scarcely gain a friend or attract an imitator.

  Samuel Johnson

  Distance, Heart, Bravery

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.102

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• When I feel well and in a good humour, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as my mind might wish.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Sleep, Night, Mind

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• I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

  Charles Dickens

  Couple, Men, Hands

  M. R. James, Arthur Conan Doyle, Saki, Sabine Baring-Gould, Thomas Hardy (2017). “Spooky Christmas: 30+ Supernatural & Eerie Tales: Ghost Stories, Horror Tales & Legends: The Silver Hatchet, Wolverden Tower, The Wolves of Cernogratz, The Box with the Iron Clamps, The Grave by the Handpost, The Ghost’s Touch…”, p.285, e-artnow

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