Humour Quotes

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

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

Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.

I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.'

I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great - once I could have a giggle, I settled down.

One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.

My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.

The thing about a sense of humour is that it's not bestowed on the good. It's just randomly dished out.

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

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!

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they're left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids.

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

Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much.

And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

That's where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that's what I like. I've always felt that's what I would like to do.

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

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

You've got to have a sense of humour about sex. When you look at it, it's all pretty ridiculous, isn't it?

It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

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

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.

I like to always have humour in whatever I do.

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.