Humor Quote by Susanna Clarke

“I joked about every prominent man in my lifetime, but I never met one I didn't like.”

— Will Rogers

“The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins.”

— Paula McLain

“He'd never been one for jokes, but of course he'd pick now to get a sense of humor.”

— Kiersten White

“As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who has been the victim…

— Guy Sajer

“Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to…

— Charles Dickens

“And he began to see his world as an amusing place where ridiculous things happened and where a man or woman could obey all…

— Alaska by James A. Michener

“Sometimes it seemed that he'd said six or eight funny things in his life, and that what passed for his sense of humor would…

— Richard Yates

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.”

— Rafael Sabatini

“I decided then and there never to become someone who told jokes when explanations were impossible.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“He did not joke, as the newspapers dared report, for sarcasm is bitter and conceals ferments of despair.”

— Jean Genet

“He assumed a manner that could be called circular irony. Everything he said, he said in quotes, with an artificial, exaggerated emphasis, and with…

— Stanisław Lem