Humor Quotes

Sure, theories of humor discern a few broad invariants: incongruity, misattribution, etc. But whereas I might find a blind date gone horribly wrong to be hilarious, you might just wince and avert your eyes. I'm shedding tears of joy at the antics of ...

Paul Di Filippo

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.

Patricia Highsmith

People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.

Phil Keoghan

Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.

P. J. O'Rourke

I think superheroes are heroes with flaws, and in their flaws, there is a sense of humor.

Peter Segal

As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.

Peter Steele

All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.

Patrick Warburton

With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.

Patrick Wilson

I've dated girls that aren't, this is gonna sound so horrible, that aren't super smart, but they still are super confident, and that's more what I've been attracted to is the confidence and the sense of humor.

Parker Young

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

Robert Benchley

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

Russell Baker

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

Robert Collier

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

Robert Frost

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

Romain Gary

Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that's because I appreciate my sense of humor.

Regina Hall

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

Ryan Kwanten

The woman who runs the Pennsylvania Innocence Project told me that there's a man she's been trying to get out of prison for 26 years. Every night before she goes to bed, she thinks, 'What is he doing?' She says you don't sleep. And yet, she has the g...

Richard LaGravenese

I think the humor of double puns is incredible.

Richard Lederer

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

Richard Lewis

My humor is channeling everything through my brain. For example, when I talk about something, it's how Richard Lewis feels about it. I'm a storyteller. I do a lot of free association.

Richard Lewis