Humor Quotes

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

Tina Fey

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.

Terrence Howard

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Thomas W. Higginson

We are really living the American dream, to be a successful brand in the States and in Europe and to steep ourselves in our heritage. But we do it with a sense of humor. We don't take ourselves too seriously in fashion.

Tommy Hilfiger

I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.

Tommy Lee Jones

I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine - he had humor.

Thomas Langmann

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.

Thomas Ligotti

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.

Tracy McMillan

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

Tracy Morgan

I want to show the world my humor.

Tracy Morgan

If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?

Tracy Morgan

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

Ted Rall

At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

Tabitha Soren

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it rea...

Theodore Sturgeon

I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.

Twyla Tharp

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Umberto Eco

You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that.

Viggo Mortensen

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

Virginia Woolf

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. Whitney Brown

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

William Collins

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.

William Collins