Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

The really funny moments you notice throughout your life are very seldom generated by one person telling a joke.

Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

Humor comes from self-confidence.

I like humor.

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

The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that doesn't do it for me either. You just try to be funny.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

A joke's a very serious thing.

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

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.

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

I'm not very funny!

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

I think I have always had a little humor.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

Whether it's an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labeled as funny can only be accepted as a compliment.

I do love jokes.

A laugh is a terrible weapon.

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.