Browsing Topic Best Humour Quotes

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

The midwife of history is violence.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it’s exactly like love in three ways: it’s pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.

Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

I’ve always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It’s as simple as that.

Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.

A man must have something to grumble about; and if he cant complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.

A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position.

When you’re working on a scene, both in the script phase and also in the moment, you look around and you wait for the lightning bolt to strike you and based on your instincts tell you what the right thing to do is here. And that can result in anything from a change of dialogue to the realisation that what you thought was a dramatic scene should actually have some humour. And maybe if you stage it this way it’s funnier, or if you put the camera here it tells a different story. That stuff is kind of everything when you’re a director.

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.

Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the ’60s and ’70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

What I find interesting is how close you can run the laughter along the seam of seriousness, and occasionally cross it, so that half the house genuinely doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Custard pie humour is fairly universal, but at the other end, which I’m more interested in, there’s the humour that hovers on the darkness, that walks in the shadow of something else, not always that obvious.

The high point of the act is when he (Uri Durov) puts his head inside the bear’s huge jaws. I wouldn’t even try that with my agent.

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative.

That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.

Love and a good sense of humour strengthen the entire body; remember your cells respond to your input.

Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!

Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It’s irrelevant. What is relevant is personality, energy, creativity and disturbing sense of humour.

I guess my height has hurt me as much as it’s helped me. In comedy people don’t mind casting tall women next to shorter men. It adds to the humour.

Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is nonsense in dogma, and sense in nonsense. Faeries express themselves with high seriousness and low humour. Faeries are resistant to all definitions.

Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.

Only six need be attempted.

It takes all sorts to make a world – saints as well as soldiers.

Every culture loves scatological humour. That’s always a favourite.