Humour Quotes
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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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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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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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I was trying for years to woo people through humour, but it seems flash cars are much easier.
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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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Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.
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You should never try irony or self-effacing humour.
