Quotes Tagged With :humorists

Wit is far more often a shield than a lance.

The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people.

The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

He that jokes confesses.

Novelist Peter de Vries like Adlai Stevenson and Mark Twain has suffered from the American assumption....

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

You encourage a comic man too much and he gets silly.

Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Humour can be dissected as a frog can but the thing dies in the process.

The ability to laugh at life is right at the top with love and communication in the hierarchy of our....