American character Quote by Constance Rourke

Every American, to the last man, lays claim to a "sense" of humor and guards it as his most significant spiritual trait, yet rejects…

— E. B. White

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

— Bob Newhart

If we do not know what humor is, that may be because we do not know what humankind is.

— Steve Allen

I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Preacher Henry Ward Beecher said, “A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It is jolted by every pebble…

— Ted Cunningham

I think we think that American books are funny or they're serious literature. But humor is subversive. When you add an element of absurdism,…

— Idra Novey

Comedy is a man in trouble. And without it, there's no humor.

— Jerry Lewis

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

— Max Eastman

“A sense of humor is a serious business; and it isn't funny, not having one. Watch the humorless closely: the cocked and furtive way…

— Martin Amis

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

— Malcolm X

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is…

— Simon Pegg

American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap.

— Elinor Glyn