Evelyn Underhill Quotes

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

Evelyn Underhill

• Humor
• Saints
• Delicate

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• Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • People
  • Hand
  • Focus

• If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Long
  • Humor
  • Suicide

• My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Dad
  • Delicate

• I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Important
  • Person
  • Luck

• Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Way
  • Humor
  • Incredible

• Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Good
  • Power
  • Funny

• Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Find
  • Humor
  • Celebrate

• My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • World
  • Parents
  • Amazing

• Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Business

• I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Childhood
  • Humor
  • Explore

• Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Dark

• You need to talk about sex with a sense of humor, especially because sex is a sensitive area for a lot of people.

  

  Paige Turco
  • People
  • Sex
  • Humor

• I try to cope with everything through humor.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Everything
  • Humor
  • Try

• The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Humor

• And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Family
  • Humor
  • Key

• I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • God
  • Humor

• I'm an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I've had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Myself
  • Humor
  • Train

• I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • School
  • Thought

• With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Trying
  • Crazy
  • Humor

• Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • American
  • Study

• I think what I do really well is that I can 'chameleon' myself into many styles at a very fast pace, sometimes in the same verse of a song.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Myself
  • Fast
  • Many

• I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-white film called 'How to Dance Properly,' a short video of me dancing to a Madonna song. I sent it to 17 of my friends on a Thursday, and by Monday, one million people a day were logging on to view it.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Friends
  • Song

• Ever since I was little, I’ve loved making hand-made cards and presents and arts & crafts for people. The book gives me a similar experience. I love being able to hold this object in my hands and say, “This is mine. I made this. It is a gift for you.” I love that feeling. Especially since this particular object contains ten years worth of my poems.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Book

• Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Humor
  • Saints
  • Delicate