Quotes on “humor”

Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.

Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

I need to look like an idiot at least twice a day to keep myself humble.

Men drive off bridges and drink too much because of women like you.

I ran three miles, staggered into the lobby, and took the elevator back to my apartment. No point to overdoing this exercise junk. --Stephanie Plum

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

How did you become blind, uh, Jeff is it? Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always tell you not to. If only I had listened.