Humour Quotes
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Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
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musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.
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Robbie minced into my life and he had the same oddball sense of humour as me. It was love at first laugh.
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Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them.
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Although she was in a fine humour and good spirits, she needed to recuperate. She was like a fine candle without enough wax to sustain the wick.
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Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well."
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Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.
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Two things people throughout history have had in common are hatred and humour. I am proud that I have been able to use humour to lessen people's hatred.
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I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.
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I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.
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I always try to lace my work with just a teensy-weensy bit of humour. It's rather like putting a sprig of feathery stuff in a flower arrangement: I believe humour is a great balancer.
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I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.
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There are a lot of filmmakers I love whose work doesn't inspire mine at all. For example: Quentin Tarantino. From his films you can see that he has a wicked sense of humour, and I love that!
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What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.
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There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.
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The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour.
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There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners of her eyes without turning her head which could be pleasantly dispensed with, especially when she is in an ill humour and near knives. Through all the good taste of her dress and little adornments, these objections so express themselves that she seems to go about like a very neat she-wolf imperfectly tamed.
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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 nearly extinguished.
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Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won?
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You've got to have a sense of humour about sex. When you look at it, it's all pretty ridiculous, isn't it?
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It seems like it has kind of taken off where people are saying 'oh it's a female character' and it just kind of grew. But my intent in saying that was humour. You know, you have to show Link when you create a trailer for a Zelda announcement.
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Humour is a big part of our lives as well as our music. Making it fun is the most important thing.
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The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.
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People ask how I’ve survived so long. Well, I was in the Blitz and there was stoicism in adversity. And humour. Humour has sustained me.
