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Classic literature can be inspirational.\u00a0 It can be poetic.\u00a0 It can be educational.\u00a0 Classic literature can also be really funny!\u00a0 Check out these ten funny quotes from literature:<\/p>\nClassic literature can be inspirational.\u00a0 It can be poetic.\u00a0 It can be educational.\u00a0 Classic literature can also be really funny!\u00a0 Check out these ten funny quotes from literature:<\/p>\n
1 – “How dreadful!” cried Lord Henry. “I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.”<\/strong>\u00a0~\u00a0 The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n 2 – “If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you’d form some idea of what unrequited affection is.” <\/strong>\u00a0~\u00a0 Dombey and Son<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Charles Dickens<\/p>\n 3 – Indeed, he would sometimes remark, when a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire from the world.<\/strong>\u00a0~\u00a0 Lothair<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Benjamin Disraeli<\/p>\n 4 – You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.<\/strong>\u00a0~\u00a0 Zuleika Dobson<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Sir Max Beerbohm<\/p>\n 5 – The bishop did not whistle: we believe that they lose the power of doing so on being consecrated.<\/strong>\u00a0~\u00a0 The Warden<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Anthony Trollope<\/p>\n 6 – A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.<\/strong>\u00a0~\u00a0 Strictly Business<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0O. Henry<\/p>\n 7\u00a0 – From politics, it was an easy step to silence.<\/strong>\u00a0~\u00a0 Northanger Abbey<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Jane Austen<\/p>\n 8 – Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.<\/strong>\u00a0~\u00a0 The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Mark Twain<\/p>\n 9 – It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.<\/strong>\u00a0~\u00a0 Three Men in a Boat<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Jerome K. Jerome<\/p>\n 10 – I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.<\/strong>\u00a0~\u00a0 This Side of Paradise<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/p>\n If you enjoyed these quotes check out our humorous quotes page<\/a> or our random funny quote feature<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Classic literature can be inspirational.\u00a0 It can be poetic.\u00a0 It can be educational.\u00a0 Classic literature can also be really funny!\u00a0 Check out these ten funny quotes from literature: 1 – “How dreadful!” cried Lord Henry. “I can stand brute force, …<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[385,109,825,389,321,378,379,145,328,384,137,381,346,393,172,382,394,353,410,386,392,390,383],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charles-dickens","category-everything-else","tag-anthony-trollope","tag-benjamin-disraeli","tag-charles-dickens","tag-dombey-and-son","tag-f-scott-fitzgerald","tag-funny-quotes","tag-humorous-quotes","tag-jane-austen","tag-jerome-k-jerome","tag-lothair","tag-mark-twain","tag-no-name","tag-northanger-abbey","tag-o-henry","tag-oscar-wilde","tag-sir-max-beerbohm","tag-strictly-business","tag-the-picture-of-dorian-gray","tag-the-tragedy-of-puddnhead-wilson","tag-the-warden","tag-this-side-of-paradise","tag-three-men-in-a-boat","tag-zuleika-dobson"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}