5,226 Quotes About Humour
- Author Toni Maguire
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We were young, she continued, while she had a bad heart. Did we not want to earn our tips, she asked us and, cowed, we refrained from introducing the subject again.Her bad heart, I noticed, did not force her to abstain from smoking, or from eating large portions of puddings. Every time I heard her opening how she could not carry anything heavy, I thought sourly "except yourself".
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- Author Douglas Adams
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Why can’t people just learn to live together in peace and harmony?” said Arthur.Ford gave a loud, very hollow laugh.“Forty-two!” he said with a malicious grin. “No, doesn’t work. Never mind.
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- Author Gustave Flaubert
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I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.
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- Author E. Lockhart
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Gideon laughed. "I like to be direct.""Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages." "I doubt it.""Human interaction is not my strong point," I told him. "Not seriously.""Seriously," I said. Thinking: There is so much about me he doesn't know. Gideon put his hand on my leg. "What's your strong point, then?""Goats," I told him. "I am excellent with goats.
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- Author Jessica Townsend
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Very ... shiny. Jack winced a little and snapped the eye patch back into place. Potentially dangerous levels of cheer.
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- Author Charles Dickens
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Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it?
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- Author Howard Tayler
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Technically, you don't pay me.And technically, most of what I do is "think."I...rrr. ummm.And when you get right down to it, I'm better at it than you are.-Ennesby & Captain Tagon
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- Author Robyn Carr
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We’re adults. I might be a little more of an adult if you’re counting years but I bet I have a lower IQ, so that puts us pretty much even.
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- Author Matthew Crow
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I was practically The Boy in the Bubble; all my autoimmune responses stripped bare by chemical representations of pine forests and summer meadows.
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