Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.
Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.
Australians have a fantastic sense of humour and incredible taste. I was there for 'Bend It Like Beckham,' and I had a great time. Aussies loved it, and I think 'Bride & Prejudice' is going to do well, too, because it's all about having a good time.
When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
I have this sense of humour which is about as sophisticated as a seven-year-old schoolboy. I get very overexcited and silly.
So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.
There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.
You've got to have a sense of humour about sex. When you look at it, it's all pretty ridiculous, isn't it?
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.
The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their newspapers right away.
The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.
I have a robust sense of humour which helps me deal with problems.
At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.
Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.
I personally feel that, for some people, their physique and looks work for them. And when you're deprived of both these aspects, you rely on humour!
According as the man is, so must you humour him.
For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.
The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.
I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.
Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.
I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.
No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad.
I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.
One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.
England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.
When synchronised swimming first appeared on TV, we laughed very heartily, and I, for one, applauded the decision to introduce humour into the Olympics.
Eric Ashcroft, a gentle, kind, popular man with a wicked sense of humour, was always modest about his wartime exploits, but eventually, with much prompting from his persistent son, he told me of his terrifying experience on D-Day.
I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.
I love using drama and humour.
I love inappropriate humour.
