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554 Humour quotes by 412 unique authors

Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust,… — Quentin Bryce
When I feel well and in a good humour, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. — Peter Ustinov
The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been… — P.D. James
People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones. — Sachin Tendulkar
Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without… — Samuel Johnson
I was a weirdo. I wasn't picked on or anything. And I wasn't smarter than the other kids; that's not why I didn't fit in.… — Jennifer Lawrence
I don't think a comedian should even be concerned with being cool or sexy, as soon as you do, you aren't a comedian any more.… — Ricky Gervais
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… — Eva Mendes
Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter. — George Gissing
You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation,… — Nelson Mandela
Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens. — John Agard
This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not… — Jean Baudrillard
The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy. — Ronald Knox
You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter. — C.S. Lewis
I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and… — E. M. Forster
You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour. — Roald Dahl
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.… — Michel Gondry
The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour. — Ken Bruen
Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side. — Edwin Percy Whipple
A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That's what you need to make a legend survive. — Karl Lagerfeld
It needs to said that Gerard Brennan's The Point is terrific. Scorchingly funny, black humour at its finest and the most inventive car theft ever! — Arlene Hunt
A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in… — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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… — Edward Dowden
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… — Phil Keoghan

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