Humor Quote by Robertson Davies Download Open image ““Subtle wits like to refresh themselves with a whiff of mild indecency.”” — Robertson Davies ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humor
“I took my clothes out of the cupboard and looked at myself in the mirror. I dropped the wet towel. i took a long,… — Sachin Kundalkar Copy Share Image
“Brilliant minds, though brimming with feeling, often remain silent — not from coldness, but out of sheer elegance.” — Paulo Ricardo Zargolin Copy Share Image
“I am a dull fellow...my person reeks, my conversation consists of insipid platitudes.” — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“It is a great act of cleverness to conceal one's being clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“I feel like someone in a terribly sophisticated play. The funny part is, I'm not sophisticated. I'm not anything. I'm just me.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“How was one to lasso her mind, and tether it to this minute, unimportant spot?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“there is something implicitly uninteresting about the look of a person who will tell you whatever you want to know.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Awareness is a gentle beauty. It hovers around me like a fairy, pointing to those things I would miss if I didn't look past… — Jeanne McElvaney Copy Share Image
“In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back. I struck… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“She was plain except when she laughed. She was someone on the subway. She wore loose skirts and plain shoes and was full-figured and… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“...the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If you're going to do something that looks evil, don't smear it with icing and pretend it's good; just bloody well do it and… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If I had to describe my remarks this evening frankly as if I were in police court and on oath, so to speak I… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I don't suppose God laughs at the people who think He doesn't exist. He's above jokes. But the devil isn't. That's one of his… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
In a government like ours, the Crown is the abiding and unshakable element in government; politicians may come and go, but the Crown remains… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
'Mad TV' is one of my most favorite shows of all time and is a huge part of my obsession with sketch comedy. — Shane Dawson Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants. — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
“...I haven't guessed where your shirt is from yet Bane, but I don't think it'll matter once it's underwater!' Tristan looked at Bane questioningly.… — S.K. Munt Copy Share Image
“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.” — Markus Herz Copy Share Image
“Not wise, perhaps, to be rude to the Pope's favorite son, but my viper tongue still required a fool now and then on which… — Kate Quinn Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently? — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
“ “Do Southerners laugh at different things than Northerners do? Yes, I say--Northerners.” Roy Blount, Jr., Roy Blount’s Book of Southern Humor” — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
