William Shenstone Quotes

Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

A sense of humor saves your life, and being able to make friends wherever you go.

My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited.

Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.

It's not all about beauty! It's also about a sense of humor.

This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite.

Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.

I find myself to be quite sarcastic, and I wouldn't want to be with someone who didn't get that.

I have never really encountered anybody that was rude to me. Well, not to my face anyway.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am... a dry sense of humor.

I like funny girls.

I've been called funny. I assume my wife thinks I'm funny. But generally, if you bumped into me and said hello, I would say hello back, politely. And that would be it.

Comedy is not my first go-to sort of genre.

It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that.

I always try to find something funny in any situation.

In personal terms, Ibra is a great guy. He's a serious guy, who makes fun of you when you least expect it.

You should respect the people you are around.

I am very attracted to funny people - I'd go so far as to say I find it hard to trust unfunny people.

I think it's important to be sort of nice.

In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.

Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.