Top 25 Subtle Humor Quotes
#2. American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap.
Elinor Glyn
#3. Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't.
Laurel Lea
#4. When we met, you couldn't stop staring at my breasts."
His face went pale, as if he seriously thought he was so subtle no one would notice. "Make sure you get an equally satisfactory look a my backside as you leave.
Kiera Cass
#5. She grew into a quiet, beautiful young woman. The beauty was a nuisance, like smog and poverty.
John Varley
#6. Really? Okay, let's roll." I didn't want to learn to drive in his beast of a vehicle, but I wasn't going to take his not so subtle ridicule either.
Elle Klass
#7. She kisses his lips; he kisses hers; they solemnly bless each other. The spare hand does not tremble
Charles Dickens
#8. The man once wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. Tolkien had that one mostly right.
I stepped forward, let the door bang closed, and snarled, Fuck subtle.
Jim Butcher
#9. In my youth, I was always one for the dramatic entrance. Now, in keeping with my character, I gravitate more toward the subtle and refined. Okay, with the occasional feathered serpent thrown in.
Jonathan Stroud
#10. I have certainly heard of the Subtle Art of Shutting Up, but I can't say I've practiced it all that much. I greatly prefer the underappreciated genius of Speaking My Mind. I figure if someone doesn't like what I have to say, they shouldn't put their ears in close proximity to my mouth.
Jenny Lundquist
#11. I love straight-face comedy or relatively subtle comedy. And then I turn around and I find myself doing very broad comedy but it's all fun and you have to keep your sense of humor and not take yourself seriously.
Betty White
#12. The first question is something immediate
and immediately, we need humanitarian aid to be allowed into the Sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.
George Clooney
#13. I once read that there are more biographical works about Napoleon Bonaparte than any other man in history.
Michael Dirda
#14. men have never seemed to object to women going off to difficult missionary assignments in the far corners of the earth. The matter of women preachers became a problem only when women wanted to be pastors back home, in the sometimes affluent neighborhoods that typically had churches pastored by men.
Alan F. Johnson
#15. If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#16. Anyway, if the Cetagandans really wanted to assassinate you, they'd hardly do it here. They'd slip something subtle under your skin that wouldn't go off for six months, and then would drop you mysteriously and untraceably in your tracks
Lois McMaster Bujold
#18. As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country.
George Edmund Street
#19. As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize.
Nalini Singh
#20. The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#21. It has all the right ingredients: rich contents, friendly, personal language, subtle humor, the right references, and a plethora of pointers to resources.
Steven S. Skiena
#23. You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around.
Rick Riordan
#24. The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.
Larry Gelbart
#25. Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish.
Antonio Munoz Molina
