#humour

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#beauty #does #good #grace #humour

Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?" He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this" -- he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose -- "distracting?" I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#humour #hunger-games #time

I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#audience #certain #certain kinds #character #characters

He leaned in for a sniff. 'Smells like a horse's arse! I've got Ian!' -'No sniffing allowed! We never discussed sniffing! I cry foul!' Ian was outraged. 'I'm not giving you a shilling!' -'Give him a shilling! It's not his fault you smell like a horse's arse! ↗

— Julie Anne Long

#humour #insults #name-calling #humor

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

— Yahoo Serious

#eyes #great #humour #sense #show

You are not the first, and will not be the last, to say so. I wear my “warped” label with pride. ↗

— Jessica Park

#love

There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life,the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#cynical #humour #love #ugly-truths #life

A text pops up on the screen. It’s from Luis. I can’t help but grin when I read his perfectly thought-out message. Luis: Hey ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#humour #romance #young-adult-fiction #young-adult-romance #funny

Can you put your hands on my crotch?” “Why, hell no, I cannot.” I didn’t remember anything like this happening in Pride and Prejudice. ↗

— Jennifer Echols

#humour #romance #young-adult-fiction #funny

It'd be funny if one of them was called Gavin. Funny but irrelevant. ↗

— John Marsden

#funny