Humorous

Famous quotes containing the word humorous:

    “Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour. He will always use it in evidence against you.”
    —Herbert, Sir Beerbohm (1853–1917)

    “Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one:
    Inconstancy unnaturally hath begot
    A constant habit; that when I would not
    I change in vows, and in devotion.
    As humorous is my contrition
    As my profane Love, and as soon forgot:
    As ridlingly distempered, cold and hot,”
    —John Donne (1572–1631)

    “I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.”
    —W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)