Sense Of Humour Quotes

Ook, though very clever, was the worst fighter in the tribe. That is how he ended up with Grot-Grot as his woman. Grot-Grot had a bald patch on the top of her head, she was missing an eye and she smelled like a dead skunk. She did have a good sense of humour though.
- Aussiescribbler

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
- Kate Beckinsale

She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.
- L M Montgomery

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
- E M Forster

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
- William Ralph Inge

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
- Sacha Baron Cohen

You've got to have a sense of humour about sex. When you look at it, it's all pretty ridiculous, isn't it?
- Cat Deeley

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.
- Edward Dowden

Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.
- Andrew Eldritch

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.
- Siobhan Fahey

I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.
- Jon Fishman

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.
- Steven Moffat

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.
- George Gissing

I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.
- Michel Gondry

It's vital to keep a sense of humour when the world seems to have suddenly become a very strange place.
- Michael Grant

As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.
- Jane Green

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.
- Shirley Henderson

Miss Grantham's sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it, exclaiming in tragic accents:'Oh Heavens! I am betrayed!' His lordship blenched; both he and miss Laxton regarded her with guilty dismay. Miss Grantham buried her face in her handkerchief, and uttered one shattering word: 'Wretch!
- Georgette Heyer

The Reverend William Trent, whose mind was of a serious order, had several times warned his elder sister that too lively a sense of humour frequently led to laxity of principle. She now perceived how right he was; and wondered, in dismay, whether it was because he invariably made her laugh that instead of regarding the Nonesuch with revulsion she was obliged to struggle against the impulse to cast every scruple to the winds, and to give her life into his keeping.
- Georgette Heyer

Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much.
- Rachel Hunter

Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.
- Ian St John

For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
- Felicity Kendal

Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always have a sense of humour.
- Phil Keoghan

I fell in love with her for her sense of humour. If she ever lost her sense of humour, I would have to dump her. Then I'd kill myself because I couldn't live without her.
- Dean Koontz

She's fine," said Declan, defensive. "You're fine, right?"
She gave him a look. "Peachy."
"See? Both Alex and her astounding wit have made it here intact. Her sense of humour seems to be M.I.A, but I'm pretty sure that was a pre-existing condition.
- Jena Leigh

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it.
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- W Somerset Maugham

There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things.
- W Somerset Maugham

I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.
- Eva Mendes

You could ask me to teach you."
"Huh?" This night is getting weird in a hurry. "Teach me like you're teaching a class or something? What are you going to call it: 'You Too Can Be a Sociopath 101'?"
"It would be more like a graduate-level class."
I start to snicker. His sense of humour sneaks up on you. Then I remember who's talking and bite it off.
- Karen Marie Moning

Killing me still on the agenda, tough girl?"
I walked over to the desk. "Yup, right here next to buy Brendan a leash."
"Glad to know you have a sense of humour."
"I wasn't joking." I mumbled, knowing he would be able to hear me.
- Elizabeth Morgan

The thing about a sense of humour is that it's not bestowed on the good. It's just randomly dished out.
- Chris Morris

I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great - once I could have a giggle, I settled down.
- Parminder Nagra

If you don't have a sense of humour when you're in a band, you end up like f**king Emerson, Lake and Palmer, making eight-disc LPs so you can all have your own three-hour f**king solos.
And who wants to listen to that bollocks?
- Ozzy Osbourne

Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.
- Gregory David Roberts

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.
- Fred Schneider

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man
- Arthur Schopenhauer

While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.
- Yahoo Serious

I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way.
- Kiefer Sutherland

Why can't people credit that he and all of us had a sense of humour?
- Ingrid Thulin

I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that.
- Norman Wisdom

My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad.
- Norman Wisdom

At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.
- Thom Yorke