Humour Quotes - Page 26

• Madness has no sense of humour

  Adam Foulds

  Madness

  Adam Foulds (2009). “The Quickening Maze”, Random House

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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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• If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

  Kate Beckinsale

  Sex, Years, Partnership

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Laughter, Caring

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life And Love, Honor, Important

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• At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.

  Thom Yorke

  Home, Juvenile

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• The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Hilarious, Laughter

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens.

  John Agard

  Self, People, Enlightening

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• The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor.

  John Lennon

  Fighting, Beard, Faces

  YouTube Chanel "Beatlemaniac1960"/ "John Lennon about violence", www.youtube.com. October 8, 2011.

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• The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people.

  Terry Pratchett

  Religious, Buddhist, Order

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.136, Random House

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• Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.

  Douglas Adams

  War, Communication, Race

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

  Jane Austen

  Fiction Novels, Thorough Knowledge, Mind

  Northanger Abbey ch. 5 (1818)

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• The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

  L.P. Hartley

  Country, Memories, Future

  "The Go-Between". Book by L.P. Hartley, 1953.

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• You live but once; you might as well be amusing.

  Coco Chanel

  Life, Fashion, Might

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• Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

  Sarah Kane

  Humanity, Life Is, Response

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• Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

  Stephen Fry

  Stupidity, Guarantees, Authenticity

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• MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Animal, Men, Thinking

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.161, University of Georgia Press

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• I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.

  Michel Gondry

  Nice, Thinking, Cynical

  "How Michel Gondry became cinema's most versatile director" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2010.

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• 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.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Character, Thinking, Play

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• What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again

  Anne Frank

  Done, Happenings, Happening Again

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.148, GENERAL PRESS

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• We are not evil. We don't harm or seduce people. We are not dangerous. We are ordinary people like you. We have families, jobs, hopes, and dreams. We are not a cult. This religion is not a joke. We are not what you think we are from looking at T.V. We are real. We laugh, we cry. We are serious. We have a sense of humour. You don't have to be afraid of us. We don't want to convert you. And please don't try to convert us. Just give us the same right we give you--to live in peace. We are much more similar to you than you think.

  Margot Adler

  Dream, Jobs, Real

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• One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  History, Historical, Know How

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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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• I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

  Peter Ustinov

  Travel, Wine, Italian

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