Humour Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
Humour is clearly allied to the gratification provoked by laughter. Humour…means a talent for being able to put one self at will into a certain frame of mind in which everything is estimated on lines that go quite off the beaten track (a topsyturvy view of things) and yet on lines that follow certain principles.
Immanuel Kant
Humour is the most self sufficient of the forms of the comic its process consummating itself in one single person and the participles of another adds nothing new to it.
Sigmund Freud
There are all kinds of humour. Some is derisive, some sympathetic and some merely whimsical. That is just what makes comedy so much harder to create than serious drama, people laugh in many different ways, and they cry in only one.
Groucho Marx
I think humour is the best that lies closest to the familiar to that part of the familiar which is humiliating, distressing, even tragic. Humour is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect. There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.
James Thurber
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the attentions.
George Eliot
Humour is an affirmations of dignity, a declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him.
Roman Gary
Leave jesting while it pleaseth, lest it turn to earnest
George Herbert
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
Somerset Maugham
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Arthur Miller
The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence.
George Santana
My way of joking is to tell the truth.
George Bernard Shaw
Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thrubber
The secret source of humour is not joy but sorrow, there is no humour in heaven.
Mark Twain
