Quotes Tagged With :humorists

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.

Humour plays close to the big hot fire which is the truth and the reader feels the heat.

He that jokes confesses.

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.

Caricature: putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever....

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be safely mentioned under cover of a joke.

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

Humour is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.