Quotes and Sayings About Humour
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I like to always have humour in whatever I do.
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Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite.
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EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.
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HOMÅ’OPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
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Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.
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Contrary to my image, I do have a sense of humour.
-- Andy Murray -
What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again
-- Anne FrankSource : Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.148, GENERAL PRESS
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I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right.
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The only way to survive is to have a sense of humour.
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I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.
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Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.
-- Brooke ShieldsSource : "Brooke Shields: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.
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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
-- Carl HiaasenSource : "Carl Hiaasen: 'My humour has always come from anger'". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2011.
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musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.
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Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.
-- Carson Kressley -
I like girls with a good sense of humour. Girls who are a lot of fun to be around.
-- Corbin BleuSource : "Zac Efron and Corbin Bleu Dish on High School Musical 3: Senior Year". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 16, 2009.
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Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.
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It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.
-- Dario Fo -
Goodnight, thank you, and may your god go with you.
-- Dave AllenSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.
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I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me.
-- Dawn French -
You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour.
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Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.
-- Edwin Percy WhippleSource : Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.60
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But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one.
-- Fred ReinfeldSource : Fred Reinfeld (2012). “The Immortal Games of Capablanca”, p.10, Courier Corporation
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There is nothing worse than annotated humour,
-- Garry Trudeau -
The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.
-- George Mikes -
Humour is the shortest road from one person to another.
-- Georges Wolinski -
I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.
-- Gerard Butler -
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The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.
-- Horace Walpole -
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued.
-- Irvin S. Cobb