Agnes Repplier Quotes

Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

I am a huge believer - I always have been - in the power of comedy. That comedy will break hatred and will bring understanding.

I believe you can joke about anything.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

I provide a little comic relief.

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.

Your funny gets developed pretty early on. Comedy requires that you understand as much as possible about the viewpoints of all people and everything that's going on around you. It genuinely requires a true point of view, a real sense of your own view of things in the world.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

The number one job for me is to make people laugh. If I can also make people think, then that's a cool thing.

If you're able to put humor into something, just like it happens in life, you might get away with it.

Most humor comes from truth. In the end, if I can laugh about it, who cares?

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.

Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.

I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.