Quotes on “humor”

Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax could listen in a cutting way. She could make something sound stupid just by hearing it.

"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. Have you thought of going into teaching?

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

This book was written using 100% recycled words.

Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

What's a philosopher?' said Brutha.Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.

Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.