Best 3518 quotes in «humour quotes» category

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas

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!

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

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.

I love Andre 3000 from OutKast. I think we'd complement each other, but I'm hoping he's got a good sense of humour.

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

I'm a big fan of shock value humour and I find myself being most comfortable when I make other people uncomfortable. Is that sick of me? I really like it.

Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always have a sense of humour.

If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.

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

In one sense, you put a lot of yourself into a small press - it's your personal tastes that are on the line - so when criticism is levelled it can feel personal. But, on the other hand, it can be very welcome and necessary. You're never entirely impervious, and one of the main benefits of being a small operation is that you can change the way you do things quickly in response to criticism. In all instances it pays to have a sense of humour and perspective.

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

Laughter is more serious than tears.

I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing

I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.

My opponent is Short and the match will be short.

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

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

Now I have the pawn and the compensation.

Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well.

Sometimes strident, often tender, never afraid and seldom without humour, Desmond Tutu's voice will always be the voice of the voiceless.

Sure, there's no 'i' in team, but there is an 'm' and an 'e'.

The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.

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

Only six need be attempted.

The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.

The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight.

The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.

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

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.

We've had a day of great drama and of humour too. The rumour mill is now taking over

Tod laughed. He was always able to find the humour in even the creepiest situations. I'd thought that it was an undead thing, until I became a member of the undead. Then I realized it was a Tod-thing.

We haven't got a plan so nothing can go wrong!

Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant

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.

Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.

When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic

While it is entirely untrue that Canadians lack a sense of humour, the funniest ones tend to head south: Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, Michael J. Fox.

£500.” He hisses furiously at me. “I can’t believe I’ve spent £500 on an entire new wardrobe and a new haircut – one that I didn’t even want my I add!” As he talks, I skip happily, a dreamy smile plastered all over my face. I’ve had, without a shadow of a doubt, the best day ever. “I can.” I answer, my voice rising several decibels, as I lose myself, currently, on cloud nine. “I’ve loved spending your money. It feels awesome!

98% of politicians are either corrupt or corruptible.

50% of all facts are false and the other half are just made up

A beach bum is just a blue-collar lounge lizard without a roof over their head.