Humor Quote by E.T.A. Hoffmann

“I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a common-wealth. In…

— John Adams

“He [Paracelsus] was a Swiss, a queer mixture of a man, of keenest intellect and coarsest fiber, an unusual combination. Like most students of…

— Howard Wilcox Haggard

“I wiped off my fingers, but it wasn't the mold or maggots making my stomach revolt... No, it was the knowledge that all around…

— Margaret Rogerson

“At nightfall I return home and enter my study. There on the threshold I remove my dirty, mud-spattered clothes, slip on my regal and…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“I cannot even hint what it was like, for it was a compound of all that is unclean, uncanny, unwelcome, abnormal, and detestable. It…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“The smallest spark may here kindle into the greatest flame; because the materials are always prepared for it. The avidum genus auricularum, the gazing…

— Christopher Hitchens

“For many feverish years he was burdened with the sensation, an ancient one to be sure, that the incredible sprawl of human history was…

— Thomas Ligotti

“Vonnegut had seen the worst of human conduct and refused to lie about the sort of trouble we were in, but who had not…

— Steve Almond

“Was it a strain so heavy that L's back curved under all its weight? Was it an agony so terrible as to leave the…

— M

“Doctor, what could you prescribe for Charlemund?” The doctor looked down his nose at the unconscious form of the arch-diocel. “Arsenic?” “Now, really. Something…

— Brian McClellan