Humour Quotes
554 quotes by 435 authors
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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.
— Mary Astell
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Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
— Dave Barry
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The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make…
— Drew Barrymore
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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…
— Kate Beckinsale
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none…
— Joseph Addison
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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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…
— Jo Brand
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The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a…
— Bill Bryson
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Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.
— Julie Burchill
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
— Samuel Butler
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My wife is way funnier than I am. As much as I don't really feel I share a sense of humour with my family, I…
— Steve Carell
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I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that.
— Nick Cave
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A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
— Fred Allen
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However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
— Winston Churchill
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I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
— Woody Allen
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My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.
— Jennifer Aniston
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I suggest taking the high road and have a little sence of humour and let things roll off your back. I think that's very important.
— Sally Ride
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If you can find humour in anything, you can survive it
— Bill Cosby
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If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas
— John Cleese
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Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant
— Charlie Chaplin
Who Wrote These Humour Quotes
435 authors contributed a total of 554 Humour Quotes, led by these top contributors: