Humour Quotes - Page 24

• Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.

  Augustus William Hare

  Mind, Body, May

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.223

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• The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.

  Sara Davidson

  Laughter, Pain, Distance

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• The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.

  Joan Miro

  Liberty, Expansion, Contradiction

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• There just isn't enough televised Chess

  David Letterman

  Chess, Enough

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• The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.

  Horace Walpole

  Scotch, Void, Wit

  Horace Walpole (1866). “The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford”, p.67

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• Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.

  Elvis Costello

  Expression, Three, Letters

  Song: Man Out Of Time

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• A lot of humour is about just enjoying life and spontaneity and because you make a joke that puts somebody down - we're always teasing each other. It's with affection. It's nasty teasing that we - not all teasing; nasty teasing you cut out.

  John Cleese

  Cutting, Enjoy Life, Nasty

  "Interview: John Cleese and Eric Idle, founding members of Monty Python". Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. February 18, 2016.

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• [Dean Martin ] had this really wonderful rich, authentic, distinct vocal style. His humour in movies [and] the self-deprecation and the coolness he had could overshadow what a marvellous vocalist in the Great American Songbook he is.

  Michael Buble

  Self, Style, Wonderful

  "Michael Bublé leaves his comfort zone". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the '60s and '70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Strong, Character, Identity

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I have a humorous side but these days humour can be a risky thing.

  Narendra Modi

  Humorous, Sides, These Days

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

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• I am in fear, there is no humour left in public life because of this fear.

  Narendra Modi

  Public Life, Left

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

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• I guess a lot of police keep their sanity by developing black humour.

  Peter James

  Police, Black, Sanity

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• Humour's the pay-off for all that existential horror.

  Tim Winton

  Pay, Horror, Existential

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• In his own lifetime Jesus made no impact on history. This is something that I cannot but regard as a special dispensation on God's part, and, I like to think, yet another example of the ironical humour which informs so many of His purposes. To me, it seems highly appropriate that the most important figure in all history should thus escape the notice of memoirists, diarists, commentators, all the tribe of chroniclers who even then existed

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Jesus, Thinking, Impact

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1975). “Jesus, the Man who lives”, HarperCollins

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• Thus, I've created humour.

  Jon Stewart

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• Humour is a big part of our lives as well as our music. Making it fun is the most important thing.

  Adam Faulkner

  Fun, Important

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• I don't think I've ever made any conscious decision to be a comic artist, but to me there's something quite anarchic about comedy.

  David Shrigley

  Artist, Thinking, Decision

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• When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Morning, Men, World

  Marcus Aurelius (2013). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.28, Read Books Ltd

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• Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Voice, Sorrow, Pathos

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.84, University of Toronto Press

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• All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour, and all such humour, has saved or at least greatly served the world.

  Stephen Leacock

  Tragedy, World, Collapse

  Stephen Leacock (2010). “My Remarkable Uncle”, p.114, New Canadian Library

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• Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

  Stephen Leacock

  Might, Contrast, Comforter

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.84, University of Toronto Press

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• So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.

  Michael Drayton

  Fashion, Long, Muse

  1594 Ideas Mirrour,'To the Reader of These Sonnets'.

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• I miss my grandmother every day. I miss her vitality, her interest in the lives of others, her courage and determination, her perceptive wisdom, her calm in the face of all difficulties, her steadfast belief in the British people and above all her unstoppable sense of mischievous humour.

  Prince Charles

  Determination, Grandmother, People

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• [W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.

  John Buchan

  Funny, Running, Humor

  John Buchan (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Buchan (Illustrated)”, p.3978, Delphi Classics

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  Two things people throughout history have had in common are hatred and humour. I am proud that I have been able to use humour to lessen people's hatred.

  Richard Pryor

  Two, People, Hatred

  2004 InThe Scotsman, 5 Jun.

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