Quotes about humor

“They say revenge is empty.”

“This is my first try at it,” Holden said. “Forgive me if my opinions on it are fairly unformed.”

“We’re the ones who followed the rules here. We came with science teams and a hard dome. We hired them to build our landing platform, and they killed us. We’re the good guys here.”

“And the moral high ground is a lovely place,” Marwick said, as if he were agreeing. “It won’t stop a missile, though.”

Say what you will about organized crime, at least it’s organized.

Stealing a man’s wife, that’s nothing, but stealing his car, that’s larceny.

I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake.

Most days I wish I was a British pound coin instead of an African girl. Everyone would be pleased to see me coming.”

Coffee, which makes the politician wise,

And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,

Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.

Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast,

When husbands, or when lapdogs, breathe their last.

Heads turned. This was gossip of the very first water—pure pharmaceutical-grade gossip.

“And I think I’ve figured out how. I think I finally know how to fix everything.”

“Historically speaking,” Alice said, “when people have said that they’ve almost always been wrong.”

Up through around twenty-five he’d never even thought about his back: it was a balanced, frictionless, self-regulating system. Now it felt like a busted gearbox into which somebody had chucked a handful of sand.