It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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Someone bent on suicide won’t have much sense of humour left.
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At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear trans...
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'Tis a queer life, and the only humour proper to it seems quiet astonishment. Others laugh, weep, sell, or proselyte. I admire.
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The chieftain had been turned into a pumpkin although, in accordance with the rules of universal humour, he still had his hat on.
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'Only a novel'... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
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The intimate relation between humour and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Humour is conc...
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Harriet Michaels: What do you look for in a girl on your date? Charlie Mackenzie: I know everyone always says a sense of humour, but I really have to go with breast size...
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A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
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Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humour is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
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The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies it...
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Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Prudent people are very happy 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.
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A sense of humour keen enough to show a man his own absurdities as well as those of other people will keep a man from the commission of all si...
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It will be agreed that the essential difference between humour and wit is that, whereas wit is always intentional, humour is always unintentio...
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Humour is the shortest distance between two people.
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Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour ...
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Humour is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
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Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour. He will always use it in evidence against you.
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The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.
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I think that God's got a sick sense of humour, and when I die I expect to find him laughing.
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Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.
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Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and wit...
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Anyalyzing humour is like dissecting a frog: nobody enjoys it, and the frog usually dies as a result.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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But I think our humour is exactly the same today. Only, we've made rules now. We've said we are not going to do prosthetic make-up scenes, because when they take it off half your face comes off.
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Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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