Quote by Jack Vance Download Open image ““I am not partial to folk who are grim and austere. I prefer fanciful folk who make me laugh.”” — Jack Vance ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I have a knack for finding humor in all sorts of things, no matter how grim. My sense of humor is wry and a… — Gerri R. Gray Copy Share Image
“I like someone who laughs, but not all the time, and not too loud. I like it when someone laughs at the world, and… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
“I've met the folk that have the perfect garlands and sprays and wreaths, the folk that live in Williamsburg-style houses. And I've met the folk that live at the edge of town in two-bedroom ranch houses that have Frosty the Snowman, lights playing tag around the roof, and a Rudolph stuck askew somewhere on the lawn. I'd rather sit in… — Lisa Samson Copy Share
“I have always marvelled at the ability of the average Gael to find something to laugh about in the most unlikely situation.” — Mary J. Macleod Copy Share Image
“A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing--mores the pity.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“I should like to knock their silly heads together. What is the sense of laughing all the time? They are not saying anything funny.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Nature well drawn, and wit, must now give place To gaudy nonsense and to dull grimace: Nor is it strange that you should like… — George Etherege Copy Share Image
“I dearly love a laugh... I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I could flay you and wear your skin as a cloak, and caper in the streets in the moonlight. But some might consider that… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
“Do not laugh too much at your fellows. Those whom you cannot love you should, rather, fear.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Better be dead than living without nobility. I'm an Englishman, a man of manners.” — Deepak Rana Copy Share Image
“He was just one of those Englishmen who was always saying silly things to sound less pompous, and pompous things to sound less silly.” — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“The dead man's companions at the counter started to their feet, but halted as Voynod with great aplomb turned to face them. "Take care, you dunghill cocks! Notice the fate of your fellow! He died by the power of my magic blade, which is of inexorable metal and cuts rock and steel like butter. Behold!" And Voynod struck out at… — Jack Vance Copy Share