Honest Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton Download Open image “Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Honest Honesty Jokes Solemnity Truth
If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty. — Olivia Munn Copy Share Image
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I can tell how honest a joke is or how true a joke is by how fast the laughs come. — Michael Che Copy Share Image
Being extremely honest is quite funny. But there's no recipe or concept that I can bring up that fully defines what we find humorous.… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
If written with enough care and thoughtfulness, a joke can make you laugh at a belief you hold dear. — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth. — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible. — Penelope Gilliatt Copy Share Image
I don't really tell a joke per se, I build up an attitude and it becomes a joke. — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I use a lot of humor, and I follow the saying that if you want to tell people the truth, you better make them… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to… — Austin Peck Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
How strong is a faith that can't stand up to a few honest questions? — Kenneth C. Davis Copy Share Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living. — Moliere Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I don't know - to be honest, I don't really model myself after anybody. — Diego Klattenhoff Copy Share Image
There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said. — Pete Waterman Copy Share Image
I have often spoken of integrity as the most important of these values, realizing that integrity – and personal integrity, at that – is… — Verghese Kurien Copy Share Image
I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called Starry Room and then I started turning over… — Jaden Smith Copy Share Image
