Humor Quote by Jane Austen

One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling…

— Jane Austen

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

— Joseph Joubert

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

— Jonathan Swift

Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in…

— George Herbert

I may be mistaken but it seems to me that a man may be judged by his laugh, and that if at first encounter…

— Anonymous

No one is more himself than the moment when he's laughing at a joke. It's at those moments that people's defenses go down, and…

— George Carlin

The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.

— Leo Rosten

A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.

— James Carlos Blake

“Sincere and unspiteful laughter is mirth, but where is there any mirth in our time, and do people know how to be mirthful?... A…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies…

— Boris Sidis