Humorous Stories Quotes

#1. There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

Mark Twain

#2. Why do I write? Because I like telling stories and I don't like repeating myself (insert chuckle here).

Najeev Raj Nadarajah

#3. The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling;the comic and the witty story upon the matter.

Mark Twain

#4. The dimple in his left cheek was ironic-it gave the impression that he was sweet as a cupcake. (Dark City Lights)

Elaine Kagan

#5. I love sharing my stories and experiences with people and connecting to them on both a humorous and emotional level.

Tori Spelling

#6. After reading some of my stories, I once had a friend say to me, "I'd love to spend five minutes in your head to see what's going on in there." I warned them, "If you spent five seconds in my mind you'd probably run out screaming and never speak to me again.

Mark W. Boyer

#7. The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

Neil Gaiman

#8. Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.

Sergio Aragones

#9. When I was 16 and arrived in France, I discovered chocolate mousse. I was crazy about the bread, too. Every morning, I'd go to the bakery and get a fresh croissant. It made me feel very sophisticated.

Jerry Hall

#10. You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.

Brian De Palma

#11. Are you on crack? Or did I take a righteous bong hit before coming here?

Natasha Larry

#12. The ark was like a portable computer hard drive and Noah was a one-man Geek Squad, and he dumped God's most important files onto it before he zorched the virus-ridden computer that was the world.

BikeSnobNYC

#13. Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says "Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed"
because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk

E. Lockhart

#14. This isn't where I intended to be. Killing a person has a funny way of getting your life off-track.

Erin Mitchell

#15. The greatest stories are simple, but well told.

Tova Dian Dean

#16. I engage in subtle stalking. That's entirely different and perfectly socially acceptable.

Siobhan Davis

#17. Not every story lends itself tonally to humor, so you have to navigate that territory properly. You can put a humorous spin on anything, really, if you know what you're doing, but it's not always desirable to have your reader laughing on every page.

Kevin Keck

#18. I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made.

Hillary Clinton

#19. My films are doing well in Polish cinemas, so I don't really have problems financing them, and my international accolades are helpful.

Malgorzata Szumowska

#20. The train hit her with the sound of a meat-filled hefty bag smacking the pavement, and the effect was much the same, I guess. (Dark City Lights)

Warren Moore

#21. An Indigo Bunting let out a trill, a cheery song, reminding me of better days, of hope and happiness and all the lofty promises a blue canary can sing about. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath of the heady morning air. Looking within myself, I searched for the man I once was.

Cheryl R Cowtan

#22. And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#23. I'm turning into an old man. I own four pairs of oxfords, my stories get a little long winded, and my neighbors play their music too loud.

Christy Hall

#24. Only criminals and madmen walk into Central Park after midnight...or, occasionally, an actor. (Dark City Lights)

Jane Dentinger

#25. This story is not and never was meant to challenge anyone's faith; however, if one's faith can be shaken by stories in a humorous novel, one may have a bit more praying to do.

Christopher Moore

#26. You are the Arabian stallion that neighs on the crossroad of my heart ache covering me with the dust of my own ardor.

Malak El Halabi

#27. I know that I can write, a couple of my stories are good, my descriptions of the 'Secret Annex' are humorous, there's a lot in my diary that speaks, but whether I have real talent remains to be seen.

Anne Frank

#28. As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window. I asked the colonel what type of aircraft it was, and he said, "Don't worry about it, Bob ... if you can see it, it's obsolete."

Bob Hope

#29. That was 1993 grunge in suburbia. This was 2003 hell in Harlem. (Dark City Lights)

Eve Kagan

#30. Desire, problem solving, and communication are all signs of intelligence and awareness. My cat has these, so it's quite possible he has a soul too.

Lewis N. Roe

#31. I like stories about supervillains. They teach children that you can accomplish great things even when the whole world is against you.

G.D. Falksen

#32. The fog was mysterious. The lights were mysterious. The music was "A-Tisket, A-Tasket".

Adam Rex

#33. The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.

Mark Twain

#34. No matter what your destination, just be sure to make every journey a journey within.

Elif Shafak

#35. Boys are stupid. That's all there is to it. Boys are just stupid.

Carrie Jones