#humour

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too. ↗

— George Murray

#fine #fine line #harder #humour #i

If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock. ↗

— Dudley North

#dead #eating #estate #growing #him

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#answers #any #because #delve #essentially

My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#chequered #got #humour #i #i think

Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#humour #age

I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for? ↗

— Stephanie Lennox

#funny #humour #husband #inspirational #love

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour. ↗

— Fred Schneider

#geniuses #good #good sense #humour #sense

A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener. ↗

— Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

#arouse #audience #cannot #feel #his

I think that Americans find the Australian humour and the energy of Australians very refreshing - we are quite self-deprecating, we're light-hearted and can have a laugh. ↗

— Teresa Palmer

#australians #energy #find #humour #i

Short cuts make long delays. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#life-lesson #pippin #proverbs #shortcuts #life