Humor Quote by Jann Rowland

“Catherine, who was extremely modest, had no desire to shine, and on most social occasions, as they are called, you would have found her…

— Henry James

“Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it…

— Catherine Tate

“The talked about their messed-up, dysfunctional families, carefully respecting boundaries, never probing too deep in any one sitting. And they always ended up laughing.…

— Andrea Kayne Kaufman

“Catherine was clever, but even a clever woman misses some of the strange corridors in a man.”

— John Steinbeck

Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and push him…

— Tina Fey

“Lady Catherine was extremely indignant on the marriage of her nephew; and as she gave way to all the genuine frankness of her character…

— Jane Austen

[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to…

— Barbara Pym

“She is very wonderful, Bertie. She is not one of these flippant, shallow-minded, modern girls. She is sweetly grave and beautifully earnest. She reminds…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“You can pretend to admire, but, unless you are a superb actress, you can't pretend to laugh. Laughter is genuine or else it is…

— Christopher Milne

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment."…

— Jane Austen

“She is not fashioned for a life among strangers.”

— Johanna Spyri

“Always, even on a solemn occasion like this, an undercurrent of laughter in her voice. She possessed a keen sense of the fundamental absurdity…

— Leah Hager Cohen