Humorists Quotes

“The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people.”

“The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people.”

“A humorist is a man who feels bad but who feels good about it.”

“If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist - I feel like countering with the word seriousist.”

“The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don’t—whichever seems likelier to win an effect.”

“I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.”

“The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.”

“Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.”

“You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.”

“He who laughs lasts.”

“Wit is far more often a shield than a lance.”