Top 100 Quotes About Humour: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Humour

#1. You can't draw lines in the sand like that. Humour's a tsunami that doesn't care about your little lines.

#2. In fact, some people use humour so habitually that it is hard for them to remain serious for any length of time.

Margaret Hough

#3. Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens.

John Agard

#4. I think that comedians, more than any other type of celebrity, have to keep their humour and keep their feet on the ground. If they start taking themselves too seriously, they're heading for a fall.

Jimmy Carr

#5. I think I have got a very good sense of humour; other people don't, but I do. I also laugh at my own jokes.

Jennifer Johnston

#6. It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers, off-the-wall sense of humour like me.

Nicole Scherzinger

#7. The philanthropist can never forget classes and callings. He says, with a modest swagger, 'I have invited twenty-five factory hands to tea.' If he said 'I have invited twenty-five chartered accountants to tea,' everyone would see the humour of so simple a classification.

G.K. Chesterton

#8. Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.

Michel De Montaigne

#9. The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.

Bill Bryson

#10. I enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying all the time.

Joaquin Phoenix

#11. Humour is but the faint terrestrial echo of the hideous laughter of the blind mad gods that squat leeringly and sardonically in caverns beyond the Milky Way. It is a hollow thing, sweet on the outside, but filled with the pathos of fruitless aspiration.

H.P. Lovecraft

#12. I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.'

Terry Pratchett

#13. The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their newspapers right away.

Alexei Sayle

#14. Seeing the funny side of life is useful, and I've always had a sense of humour.

Henry Allingham

#15. The Nazis understand everything except humour.

Mary Berg

#16. What's happened to humour? We're becoming American. Everyone gets so angry over everything.

Rupert Everett

#17. London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from commercial constraints. Truer to the process, to street style, to a sense of humour.

Alexa Chung

#18. I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.

Rachel Kushner

#19. Can we just be grateful for beauty & joy, fascination & tolerance, humour & love, nature & grace, and simply release any anger and pains?

Jay Woodman

#20. You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.

C.S. Lewis

#21. I think that Liverpool's particular modern history lends itself to the cinema better than London in many ways. When you go to Liverpool, you absorb that whole sound and humour.

Rhys Ifans

#22. I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.

Samuel L. Jackson

#23. I have a robust sense of humour which helps me deal with problems.

Peter Mayle

#24. Some designers retain a sense of humour about what they do, but others are deathly serious and have no life outside of it; they're lying awake night after night constructing dresses in their heads.

Helena Christensen

#25. You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour.

Doug Stanhope

#26. Beauty does not look with good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

W. Somerset Maugham

#27. When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

Paul Merton

#28. I refuse not to have a sense of humour.

Ken Livingstone

#29. Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I'll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into fat and manure, some into work and good humour, and others, I'm told, into God. So there must be three sorts of men.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#30. Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us ...

Wilkie Collins

#31. One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.

Colin Baker

#32. I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

William Ralph Inge

#33. Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language ... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.

Barry Humphries

#34. I think that people's sexual preferences are a legitimate subject for humour, dirty humour if at all possible.

Christopher Hitchens

#35. Captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearance of good humour which youth and beauty generally give

Seth Grahame-Smith

#36. The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.

Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

#37. Australian people are dope. They're so fun. They want to just have a good time, and they have a great sense of humour.

Erin Heatherton

#38. We choose our favourite author as we do our friend, from a conformity of humour and disposition. Mirth or passion, sentiment or reflection; whichever of these most predominates in our temper, it gives us a peculiar sympathy with the writer who resembles us.

David Hume

#39. Yes ... I miss that everyone in Ireland tries to knock some humour out of every situation. I don't think I appreciated that. It's unique to Ireland.

Deirdre O'Kane

#40. I love her and hate her at the same time. I even love the parts of her that I hate, her vitality and her colour, her disruption and disorder, her humour and her despair, her conceit and her narcissism, her everything that isn't me.

Poppy Adams

#41. Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.

Brooke Shields

#42. Humour is my best defence, so humour me.

Jonathan Dunne

#43. Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

Simon Wiesenthal

#44. I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.

E. M. Forster

#45. Where death gives you a sense of humour, life gives you a sense of love.

Athan Fletcher

#46. Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.

Andrew Eldritch

#47. If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

Kate Beckinsale

#48. Humour is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought - rather it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy.

Oscar W. Firkins

#49. I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame.

Kate Bush

#50. I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.

Clive Sinclair

#51. Killing me still on the agenda, tough girl?"
I walked over to the desk. "Yup, right here next to buy Brendan a leash."
"Glad to know you have a sense of humour."
"I wasn't joking." I mumbled, knowing he would be able to hear me.

Elizabeth Morgan

#52. For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.

David Hume

#53. I like to think that even with some of the more intense ones sometimes there is humour in there, you try to make a complete human being, whether the guy is good or bad.

Ray Liotta

#54. You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.

Lars Von Trier

#55. For Teaism is the art of concealing beauty that you may discover it, of suggesting what you dare not reveal. It is the noble secret of laughing at yourself, calmly yet thoroughly, and is thus humour itself,
the smile of philosophy.

Okakura Kakuzo

#56. For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it is to be a child.

Soren Kierkegaard

#57. Driving across the world in a pink tuk tuk is something I would recommend to everyone. It's proved to me that humans are essentially kind, the humour is the key to survival and that risks are always worth taking.

Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent

#58. I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

Siobhan Fahey

#59. The hardest part about being in radiohead is being inside a giant head that is a radio. Ha ha, little english humour there, or is it a hammer?

Thom Yorke

#60. The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour

Hugh Massingberd

#61. Life never delivers more than you can endure. Life has the sickest sense of humour. Sometimes

Pepper Winters

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

Alan Bennett

#63. Clever move. Using humour to deflate my murderous intent.

Nicholas Briggs

#64. Who had a large wardrobe of Humour's cast-off clothes

Oscar Wilde

#65. No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest, some supposed slight, or some humour, always breaks in upon, and oversets their most prudent resolutions and schemes.

Lord Chesterfield

#66. That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.

Gary Shteyngart

#67. In the whole history of movies, there has been nothing like Kubrick's vision. It was a vision of hope and wonder, of grace and of mystery, of humour and contradictions. It was a gift to us, and now it's a legacy.

Steven Spielberg

#68. I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.

Michel Gondry

#69. What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.

Mira Nair

#70. It is just possible that feminists have been literal-minded and, in pursuit of a political goal, have lost their sense of humour.

Mary Norris

#71. I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

Sacha Baron Cohen

#72. We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.

Meg Cabot

#73. Whenever dark things happen in my life, there is always some dark humour.

Ken Bruen

#74. For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.

Felicity Kendal

#75. Good humour was miles behind a second cup of morning tea. It was too early for nonsense.

Zeenat Mahal

#76. The role of humour is to make people fall down and writhe on the Axminster, and that is the top and bottom of it.

Alan Coren

#77. My humour and my work ethic definitely come from my Scottish side, and I have to say the sense of humour doesn't really translate when I'm in America.

John Barrowman

#78. If there is a god, I think he has a sense of humour. He does not require human beings to protect him from satire.

James K. Morrow

#79. Eric Ashcroft, a gentle, kind, popular man with a wicked sense of humour, was always modest about his wartime exploits, but eventually, with much prompting from his persistent son, he told me of his terrifying experience on D-Day.

Michael Ashcroft

#80. There are a lot of funny women in my life. I never understand those movies where there's eight funny guys and two women who don't have any opinion or humour.

Melissa McCarthy

#81. Anger and humour are like the left and right arm. They complement each other.

James H. Cone

#82. Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.

Edward De Bono

#83. I love inappropriate humour.

Bojana Novakovic

#84. As a bandleader, I try to pass on the same family values that I grew up with: help people, hang on to your sense of humour, be tolerant, and keep your judgments to yourself.

Jools Holland

#85. Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#86. And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.

Michael Moore

#87. Relationship humour gets the most laughs. If I'm able to get the women laughing, men will have to laugh along because they would be scared to death.

Vir Das

#88. (I've often noticed that people equate "having a sense of humour" with "being an insensitive moron.")

Sophie Kinsella

#89. Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

G.K. Chesterton

#90. I'm just an actor. If it's drama, I add as much humour as the part will stand. And if it's a comedy, add as much drama as you can, so it balances out; you don't wanna be too serious.

Michael Pena

#91. ...she knew again that her humour had saved her only for larger destructions; that the mad and the murdered, the living, must learn to hold their chemical breath.

Dow Mossman

#92. He was in that humour when a man will cut off his nose to spite his face

Robert Louis Stevenson

#93. In Japan, people have something called their charm point. A coy smile, a twinkle in the eye, a faultless sense of humour, or a laugh no one has heard in the history of laughs before. The thing that makes others love you.

Christopher Barzak

#94. Some people seem quite destitute a sense of humour.

George Grossmith

#95. I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.

Miriam Toews