Jean Cocteau Quotes

Humor is reason gone mad.

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

It is only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

… the most superlatively ridiculous thing

We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical.

There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

It is a known fact that the sheep that give us steel wool have no natural enemies.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

See the ridiculous in everything.

Here it is,' Nigel said. Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.' How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

Well what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured.

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.