Humour Quotes
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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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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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When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of introspection. I see some element of disappointment; I see a sense of humour, but also something that is faintly ridiculous; and I see somebody who is frightened of being found out and thought lightweight.
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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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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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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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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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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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The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.
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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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Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.
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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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With humour, there is life.
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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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Humour is the shortest road from one person to another.
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It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
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The older you get, the closer your loves are to the surface. She was breathing rarefied air, the ether you come upon at high altitudes. I understood finally how long-held grievances and petty smallnesses might get burned off, and pure creativity and humour remain.
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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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We've had a day of great drama and of humour too. The rumour mill is now taking over.
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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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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.
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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?
