Humour Quotes
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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 hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.
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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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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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Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.
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I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.
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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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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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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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musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.
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When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.
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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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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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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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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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Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won?
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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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The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.
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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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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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Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.
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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.
