Quotes about humor
113 quotes from 83 people
Maggie Smith1934–2024“You have to laugh” (2004)It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 2, pp. 31–32
Jon Stewartborn 1962The Eric Garner Grand Jury Decision, December 4, 2014- Jon Stewartborn 1962Rolling Stone interview, October 31, 2006
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745The Battle of the Books, preface (1704)Stupid people, people who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited.
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863“Mr. Brown’s Letters to His Nephew: On Love, Marriage, Men and Women”, p. 109.Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863“Mr. Brown’s Letters to his Nephew: On Tailoring — And Toilettes in General”, p. 12.
Mark Twain1835–1910“What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us?” (1897)- Mark Twain1835–1910“The Chronicle of Young Satan” (ca. 1897–1900, unfinished), published posthumously in Mark Twain’s Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts (1969), ed. William Merriam Gibson (pp. 165–166 in the 2005 paperback printing, )
- Mark Twain1835–1910How To Tell A Story (1895)
Peter Ustinov1921–2004BBC obituary (2004)
