Humourless Quotes

#1. People, particularly over-moralistic Americans, have often seen me as a pessimist and humourless to boot, yet I think I have an almost maniacal sense of humour. The problem is that it's rather deadpan.

J.G. Ballard

#2. As humourless a lump of dough as ever held a torchlight vigil outside the South African Embassy or stuck an AIDS awareness ribbon on an unwilling first-nighter.

Stephen Fry

#3. Who do you think you are?' Asiron asked, with a dry humourless laugh. 'I'll tell you who I am,' answered Parmenion, the words of Tamis echoing in his mind. 'I am Parmenion, the Death of Nations.

David Gemmell

#4. It is impossible to overestimate how humourless underpaid journalists can be.

David Lagercrantz

#5. Seb's mouth quirked into a humourless smile. "That wouldn't get an argument from me either. Just say the word; I'll kidnap her and take us both far away from here.

L.A. Weatherly

#6. You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.

Terry Pratchett

#7. I don't mind being called a hairy, humourless lesbian because that is what I aspire to be.

Bridget Christie

#8. Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.

Martin Amis

#9. Why, Sicarius, is it possible you have a playful side beneath your razor-edged knives, severe black clothing and humourless glares?

Lindsay Buroker

#10. The conductor was eating a young ladies' cinema nibble with a rigid, humourless expression, as though it was the doorstop or hunk of sausage that would have accorded with his personality.

Joseph Roth

#11. Nobody should be alone," Sissix said. "Being alone and untouched...there's no punishment worse than that. And she's done nothing wrong. She's just different.

Becky Chambers

#12. Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking about, what you are actually proposing. It gets you away from the catch phrases that not merely substitute for thought but preclude it.

Edwin Newman

#13. Little Sally is beheading daisies on the drive ... couldn't be more eloquent if she could speak ...

Lauren Groff

#14. Sometimes you have a little problem and you dont fix it and then all of a sudden it aint a little
problem anymore.

Cormac McCarthy

#15. I don't particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it.

George W. Bush

#16. We always want to live in an environment where there's no artificial block to good work.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#17. You know women when they get talking. They don't stop for anything but unconsciousness.

Jennifer Ashley

#18. It has taken me thirty three years and a bang on the head to get my values right.

Stirling Moss

#19. I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#20. There is no worse parent than an unhappy parent!

Rossana Condoleo

#21. The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast.

Yukio Mishima

#22. If it please the Devil, one day I may have happiness. That will be all-sufficient. I shall then analyze no more. I shall be a different being.

But meanwhile I shall eat.

Mary MacLane

#23. Dear papa, I love you so much!' she replied, twining her arms around his neck. 'I love you all the better for never letting me have my own way, but always making me obey and keep to rules.

Martha Finley

#24. Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.

Rachel Kushner

#25. To be the most successful male from 'The X Factor' is a big achievement, and I'm chuffed with that.

Olly Murs