Ian Mcewan Quotes

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

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

Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.

There's so much humor in serious things sometimes.

And sometimes you can make your point better with comedy than you can through shouting about it.

Sometimes it's difficult to laugh at certain things but comedy can help.

You can find humor in most things, and even terrible things.

Some people don't have a sense of humor.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

You have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

A laugh is a terrible weapon.

Jokes are grievances.

I don't control the line of 'funny,' 'funny,' 'funny,' 'not funny.'

A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious!

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