Quotes about humor

"Denial is an ugly thing, Nicky." "I'm not in denial.""See what I mean? That's denial."

"I don't want to be a grown-up. … Because grown-ups always say that things are complicated."

Ninety percent of life was being there, and the rest was being there on time.

Keep your best whiskey in a bottle marked ‘mouthwash.’

Fusion power we licked; static cling has us on the ropes. It’s a funny world.

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

I thank you, Papa, for your kindness. It is true about me to this day. I am foolish but I am not a fool.

By god, D. H. Lawrence was right when he had said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?

The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.

The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish and short. So is his style.

...whereas there still lingers some absurd prejudice against living on one's friends, no limits are set, either by society or by one's own conscience, to the amount one may impose upon one's relatives.

It is hard to look a hero when mounted on a pig.