Top 72 So Laughable Quotes
#1. It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.
Libba Bray
#2. Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.
Charles Kennedy
#3. No, no, you have none of you any idea. This is all nonsense, fantasy, it is not like this. Nothing so blood-curdling and becreepered and crude - not so ... so laughable. The truth is quite other, and altogether more terrible.
Susan Hill
#4. I'm an actor and a writer and a showrunner and I edit my show ... I have a job that three people usually have, and I have it in one person. And the idea that the critic thought that I had this excess of time for which I could go to, like, panels or write essays was just so laughable to me.
Mindy Kaling
#5. Never has nostalgia held stronger sway; never has the belief in the redemptive possibilities of the future seemed so laughable.
Ann Marlowe
#6. When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, "People need to see what I can do." And it's so laughable, especially with actors.
Will Arnett
#7. The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.
James Thurber
#8. The laughable is a species of what is disgraceful.
Aristotle.
#9. Agency in fiction has to exist in the context of the worldview. Otherwise agency is not just meaningless or unconvincing, it is often laughable. Unfortunately, agency is often thoughtlessly given to characters who would not have it in reality. p.189
Jeff VanderMeer
#11. Some men want to believe their kingship will make them stronger, more invulnerable to life's sorrows so that hurts do not hurt, pain is laughable. They are surprised to discover the paradox of strength - only the truly vulnerable possess the ability to love powerfully.
Edmond Manning
#12. One of the most egregiously stupid books I've ever come across. I would recommend reading this only because it's the epitome of all that is moronic, superficial, contrived, hollow, false and utterly laughable in publishing today.
Kris Saknussemm
#14. Our reputations are so out of our control that it's laughable how much time and effort so many of us put into trying to "control" them.
Taite Adams
#15. Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.
Sue Grafton
#16. The clown has great importance as part of the search for what is laughable and ridiculous in man. We should put the emphasis on the rediscovery of our own individual clown, the one that has grown-up within us and which society does not allow us to express.
Jacques Lecoq
#17. If not so tragic, it would be laughable. Both sides os blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see that they were all fighting for the same thing- for the men to leave this island. Insanity!
Brom
#18. One of my most laughable moments was when we visited the monkeys in Ubud - they really seemed to like me and at one point, I had three males on my head and shoulders.
Carolyn Murphy
#19. It's malarkey. When you tell people that the roof crushing in on your head is not the cause of injury, it's your head hitting the roof, it's laughable.
Joan Claybrook
#20. My movie career - if such a thing even exists - is laughable.
Elaine Stritch
#21. I don't want to paint myself as some kind of saint - that would be laughable - but I do think I've been able over the years to write humanely about subjects who are controversial and even contemptible. I've profiled pedophiles, stalkers, serial rapists, prison gang members and corrupt politicians.
Robert Draper
#22. What is so often laughable, in the stories of Kundera's Czechoslovakia, is how grimly serious just about everything turns out to be, jokes and games and pleasure included; what's laughable is how terribly little there is to laugh at with any joy.
Philip Roth
#23. When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.
Terrence Malick
#24. If you curse the world, it will bring you sorrow.'
'I'm already so unhappy it's laughable.
Satoshi Mizukami
#25. She supposed the lake was part of her dowry, now. Michael would have to ask permission to fish there. He would have to ask her husband permission to fish there. The idea would be laughable if it weren't so ... wrong.
Sarah MacLean
#26. For these women, Hamas's view of women was laughable. And since they couldn't hear the appeal of such views themselves, they were deaf to the appeal they held for their students.
Geraldine Brooks
#27. People like the Mormons and the Scientologists, who I think should combine and make a Mormontologist because what they believe is just so out there it's just laughable.
Bill Maher
#28. It was funny, thought Lis, how everything seemed possible in the middle of the night. The fairy tales had seemed almost laughable at school. They weren't so funny any more.
James Dawson
#29. It was almost laughable trying to intimidate two men wearing togas, but I still unleashed my full-on I Will Kill You expression.
Jamie McGuire
#30. There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#31. With an earnestness that would be laughable in a person who wasn't from Wisconsin.
Jennifer Egan
#32. It's not the end of the world.'
That's what people will tell you. That's what people will tell you when they want to say, 'Your problems are stupid, your reaction to them is laughable, and I would like you to go away now.
Janet E. Cameron
#33. Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.
Joan Rivers
#34. I think it laughable, frankly, that the physics community comes up with a theory for everything. There isn't one theory for everything. There is not one explanation. We may eventually have several theories that can tie things together nicely but there is not a single theory of everything.
Edgar Mitchell
#35. Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it is gone in one night and in its place comes the sun so large and laughable.
Sherman Alexie
#36. I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
Voltaire
#37. The notion that critics of the drone program are being manipulated by propaganda from terrorist organizations "would be laughable, were it not so offensive towards civilian victims of drone strikes." A
Jeremy Scahill
#38. Elisabeth, can't you imagine that you could love someone so terribly that just because of it you couldn't go to bed with him?
Milan Kundera
#39. Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.
Berenice Abbott
#40. Pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!
John Green
#41. The simplicity of it was disconcerting: a simplicity that made all the other dates they'd had before baffling, those times they'd had to talk or try to be amusing, make an effort to seem like a worthwhile person. The obviousness of it became almost laughable.
David Foenkinos
#42. It was another horrible yet almost laughable moment. Cupcakes and birthday car sex had been my undoing.
Richelle Mead
#43. I went from wanting to lick his dimples to wanting to get the hell away from him.
Colleen Hoover
#44. And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
#45. Go to humorous events at comedy clubs and watch laughable movies.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#46. Members of Congress are incredibly blessed and fortune to have the jobs that we have. Nobody makes us run. Every two years we offer for public office, and if you don't want to do it then don't run. But the notion that you can make $174,000 in this country and be underpaid is laughable.
Trey Gowdy
#47. The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave.
Tamara Mellon
#48. Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?
Chet Baker
#49. Being the one to end the call gave the fucking twerp some kind of sense of power. Annoying, yes, but seriously laughable.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#50. In fact, the harder he tried, the more laughable his efforts turned out.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#52. When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laughable to most folks, and for the longest time it was hard to even explain what alternative comics or graphic novels were. Nobody seemed to understand or care. Not so, any longer.
Seth
#53. Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.
Jon Meacham
#54. It is laughable how often good manners interfere with my survival.
Andrew Levkoff
#55. Like many people who feel themselves to be insignificant, even laughable, Quirrell had a latent desire to make the world sit up and notice him. Quirrell
J.K. Rowling
#56. Every one of my novels could be entitled The Unbearable Lightness of Being or The Joke or Laughable Loves; the titles are interchangeable, they reflect the small number of themes that obsess me, define me, and unfortunately, restrict me. Beyond these themes, I have nothing else to say or write.
Milan Kundera
#57. Is it not laughable that we believe in a sacred,infrangible law - thou shalt not lie, thou shalt not kill - in an existence characterized by perpetual lying and perpetual murder?
Albert Camus
#58. As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#59. Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can be exposed as possessing laughable inconsistencies. And so they laugh. And stand still.
Scott Turow
#60. As long as American liberals are going to keep announcing that they're embarrassed for their country, how about being embarrassed by our public schools or by our ridiculous trial lawyer culture that other countries find laughable?
Ann Coulter
#61. Small actions are at the heart of kaizen. By taking steps so tiny that they seem trivial or even laughable, you'll sail calmly past obstacles that have defeated you before. Slowly - but painlessly! - you'll cultivate an appetite for continued success and lay down a permanent new route to change.
Robert D. Maurer
#62. A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention.
Michael J. Gelb
#63. Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
Plato
#64. Redemption. What a laughable concept. When he looked over his life, he couldn't see where he had first stepped off the righteous path. More important, had he even ever laid a single foot on that path?
Michael R. Fletcher
#65. The whole idea that people have a clue as to how the world works, is just a piece of laughable metaphysical colonialism perpetrated upon the wild country of time.
Lorrie Moore
#66. The majority of believers on this earth find it laughable that we could reduce the call to follow Jesus and make disciples to an invitation to sit in church service.
Francis Chan
#67. As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light bulb, to me is not only spiritually impossible to believe, but logically it is laughable - the idea that we simply die and nothing happens.
Stephen King
#68. Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.
Joaquin Phoenix
#69. There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night.
Emma Donoghue
#70. Ridendo dicere severum. (tr. Through what is laughable say what is somber.)
Friedrich Nietzsche
#71. For the laughable is a sort of error and ugliness that is not painful and destructive, just as, evidently, a laughable mask is something ugly and distorted without pain.
Aristotle.
#72. There are certain battles that you pick. When they're not worth picking, they're laughable stories.
David Beckham
