Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852–1917) English Actor, Theater Personality He will always use it in evidence against you. Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) British-born American Film Director, Film Producer
He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, ‘I say, is that thing safe?’ It’s a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. Anne Louise Germaine de Stael (1766–1817) French Woman of Letters Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike. William Arthur Ward (1921–94) American Author Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-born British PhilosopherĪ well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important. Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911) American Social Reformer, Clergyman There is certainly no defense against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. Frank Lane (1896–1981) American Sportsperson, Businessperson In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before. Horace Mann (1796–1859) American Educator, Politician, Educationalist Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German Poet, DramatistĪvoid witicisms at the expense of others. The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh. Edwin Percy Whipple (1819–86) American Literary Critic It is a humane influence, softening with mirth the ragged inequities of existence, prompting tolerant views of life, bridging over the space which separates the lofty from the lowly, the great from the humble. Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their opposites. James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish Novelist, Poet Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, JournalistĪn Irishman needs three things: silence, cunnning, and exile. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted what the Philistine is pleased to call a “joke.” Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American Actor, Comedian, SingerĮverything human is pathetic. If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.
William Feather (1889–1981) American Publisher, Author An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.
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