Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

I always made people laugh, and everybody wanted me to sit at the table with them. I don't joke as much as I used to, but I can still be a little comedian every now and then.

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.

The thing I do best is laugh.

I have a need to always make people laugh. I have a desperate need. I love a great sense of humor. The people I sort of surround myself with have that.

But if something funny happens, I can't resist. I have to tell the people.

You might be the funniest guy in the world, but if you don't have anything to talk about, people are eventually going to gravitate towards the guy that's actually saying something.

I'll do almost anything for a laugh.

I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.

I've got a great sense of humor.

I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke.

Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh?

Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.

Anybody with a good sense of humor is one-up on their competition. We respond to somebody who has the ability to make us laugh. It's a bonding influence.

I really like being able to laugh at my own jokes.

Humor disarms people. They don't feel threatened.

don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.

Write a smart joke and people want to talk about it and keep the dialogue going. Also, if you can make someone laugh, it's a pronouncement that they like you on some level.

I'm amused by a lot of things. I love humor. I'm constantly joking around.

The ability to be funny is pretty widespread in the population.

True wit never made us laugh.

I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I'm in the company of good friends, but I'm not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.

I'd worked with Marlon [Brando] a couple of times, and he was a practical joker. He was far more interested in getting jokes out than getting the words out. We laughed all the time.