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Quotes about Humor

Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.
— Henry Ward Beecher
What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like "Mad Men" is disgusting. It's a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.
— Jonah Hill
Let's just agree any group of 3 or more handsome British men should be referred to as a 'cumberbatch.'
— Conan O'Brien
Gordon W. Allport's book, The Individual and His Religion: "The neurotic who learns to laugh at himself may be on the way to self-management, perhaps to cure.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation. It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
— Viktor E. Frankl
I dig out beautiful caves behind my characters; I think that gives exactly what I want; humanity, humor, depth. The idea is that the caves shall connect, & each comes to daylight at the present moment.
— Virginia Woolf
Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.
— Virginia Woolf
If this is love, there is something highly ridiculous about it.
— Virginia Woolf
Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman's.
— Charles Dickens
Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
— Charles Dickens
A most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.
— Charles Dickens