Jokes Quote by Malcolm Muggeridge

A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of…

— Jack London

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny…

— Poppy Z. Brite

I loved the [English] countryside. I went to John Bonham's grave.

— Bill Burr

“It was the same fearful excitement we felt when we happened to drive through what Mummer considered a bad part of London and found…

— Andrew Michael Hurley

Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have…

— Norman Douglas

You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the…

— Giorgos Seferis

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in…

— Henry James

People say the comedy is so shocking, but if you read newspapers or look around generally - I mean, obviously I'm not writing about…

— Julia Davis

“The crowd laughs at the parody. Weep, ladies, over your own fate, when you see the misery of imprisoned matter, of tortured matter which…

— Bruno Schulz

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

— Rick Moody