Humorous Quotes

"Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking." ~ Bleak House by Charles Dickens "Mr. Bazzard's father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement available for assaulting purposes, on the slightest hint of his son's having written a play." ~ The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds. ~ The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens There are two insults which no human being will endure: the assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble. ~ Main Street by Sinclair Lewis "There are two races of people, only two, and they live side by side. His calls mine 'neurotic'; mine calls his 'stupid'." ~ Main Street by Sinclair Lewis "My idea of an agreeable person," said Hugo Bohun, "is a person who agrees with me." ~ Lothair by Benjamin Disraeli Indeed, he would sometimes remark, when a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire from the world. ~ Lothair by Benjamin Disraeli "A truly refined mind will seem to be ignorant of the existence of anything that is not perfectly proper, placid, and pleasant." ~ Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens "She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful." ~ Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens The Rector of Worsted Skeynes was not tall, and his head had been rendered somewhat bald by thought. ~ The Country House by John Galsworthy