Humor Quote by Jessamyn West

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

— Agnes Repplier

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

— Clifton Fadiman

Irony won't save you from anything; humour doesn't do anything at all. You can look at life ironically for years, maybe decades; there are…

— Michel Houellebecq

The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity.

— Leah Hager Cohen

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

— James Gray

Humor is the harmony of the heart.

— Douglas William Jerrold

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not…

— Langston Hughes

“...element of comedy is never completely eliminated from irony. But irony is something more than comedy. A comic situation is proved to be an…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own…

— Clifton Fadiman

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

— Alice Meynell

I guess my sense of humour leans more towards irony and tongue-in-cheek performance.

— Eliza Scanlen

The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.

— Robert Olen Butler