Quotes about humor

It was very boring. Perhaps it was his job to be boring, Vivian thought, in which case he was very good at his job.

“When I act,” he sputtered, “it’s with the idea of winning.”

I confessed I lacked his military experience, but told him I had found that in some situations winning consisted of disentangling oneself.

We’ll both be glad of the company, like the undertaker remarked to the ghost.

The best way to describe silence is to say nothing—but what grace!

“I know little of the court, Chatelaine.”

“The less you know, the happier you will be.”

She simply has no concept of what’s real and what’s fantasy—did I say? She’s in the theater.

Look, if he’s alive, there’s nothing we have to do about it. If he’s dead, there’s nothing we can do.

Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.

“I was born,” the Mouse said. “I must die. I am suffering. Help me. There, I just wrote your book for you.”

I must remember my own origins. Once I was as ignorant as you; I swear, though, I can’t remember when.

Imagination should be used for something other than pondering murder, don’t you think?

“We’re not going to climb that in the dark, are we?” asked Iimmi.

“Better than in the light,” said Urson. “This way you can’t see how far you have to fall.”