Humorless Quotes

15 quotes by 13 authors

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. — Robert Benchley
I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my… — Campbell Scott
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau
Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes… — Hunter S. Thompson
Old friend, there are peopleâ€”young and oldâ€”that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always in short supply. I am… — John D. MacDonald
My logisticians are a humorless lot ... they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay. — Alexander the Great
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity — Christopher Hitchens
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless. — Evelyn Waugh
I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I… — Ian MacKaye
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people. — Robert Benchley
..."Fun?" you ask. "Weren't feminists these grim-faced, humorless, antifamily, karate-chopping ninjas who were bitter because they couldn't get a man?" Well, in fact the problem… — Susan J. Douglas
As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless,… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and… — Christopher Hitchens
Obsessed people are not humorless at all. — Philippe Petit
By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison… — Joseph Collins

Who Wrote These Humorless Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 15 Humorless Quotes as follows: