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Humour Quotes - Page 2

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

"Carl Hiaasen: 'My humour has always come from anger'". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2011.

As soon as I got funny, I killed any majestic intentions in my work.

Lisa Lyons, William Wegman, Kim Levin, Walker Art Center (1982). “Wegman's world: 5 December 1982 to 16 January 1983, Walker Art Center”

Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.

"Brooke Shields: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.84, University of Toronto Press

Sometimes humour is all we have to say the things that can't be said.

Simon R. Green (2003). “Agents Of Light And Darkness”, p.146, Penguin

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

All humour is critical, you know? You make stupid jokes. I mean, stupidity is an infirmity, isn't it?

"Interview: John Cleese and Eric Idle, founding members of Monty Python". Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. February 18, 2016.