Humor Quote by Ronald Knox Download Open image “The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.” — Ronald Knox ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare American Humor Humor Humor Pose Illiteracy Pose Illiteracy
I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed.… — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I'm rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a… — Ron Dentinger Copy Share Image
What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
I think we think that American books are funny or they're serious literature. But humor is subversive. When you add an element of absurdism,… — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every American, to the last man, lays claim to a "sense" of humor and guards it as his most significant spiritual trait, yet rejects… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I don't like to have these words banded about, like "British sense of humor," "American sense of humor," though I'll be damned if I… — Frank Oz Copy Share Image
A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said. — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'. — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
Knox was engaged in a theological discussion with scientist John Scott Haldane. 'In a universe containing millions of planets,' reasoned Haldane, 'is it not… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it. — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
“Hope is something that is demanded of us; it is not, then, a mere reasoned calculation of our chances. Nor is it merely the… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
The difference between the Old and the New Testament is the difference between a man who said "There is nothing new under the sun"… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room. — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
“It is possible to argue that the true business of faith is not to produce emotional conviction in us, but to teach us to… — Ronald Knox 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
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