Henry Fielding Quotes

You probably shouldn't laugh any more.

Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't.

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

I think I found it difficult though to keep a straight face when we were actually working and I wasn't supposed to be laughing.

The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke.

Laughter is the greatest music in the world and audiences come to my shows to escape the cares of life. They don't want to be embarrassed or insulted. They want to laugh and so do I - which is probably why it works.

We can change the world one laugh at a time.

It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.

When there's characters out there that don't have humor, I don't find them as believable, because we all have humor, no matter what level it is, we all use it every day, no matter what situation we're in, we'll try and have a bit of a laugh even if it goes wrong.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

This is an ugly and mean world, and only to spite it we mustn't weep. If you want to know, this is the constant source of my good spirit, of my humor. Not to cry, out of spite, only to laugh out of spite, only to laugh.

I used to take myself very seriously, now it's all just funny. You gotta laugh at yourself. You know, most of the time when something's a big deal for us, it's only become a big deal in the space between our ears.

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.

To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.

Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?

What is the work of a Master?" said a solemn-faced visitor. "To teach people to laugh ," said the Master gravely.

I do not admire greatness that has no substance.

I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

Take what you do seriously, but yourself lightly

Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily credible parallel society, punctuated by bouts of laugh-out-loud humor.

When you're doing comedy, you're not trying to be funny. I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously. I think when people are winking, it becomes slapstick, it becomes something else.

Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?