David Eddings Quotes

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

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

Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.

Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

Some sarcasm is best told simply.

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.

My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

I detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn't know it's funny or doesn't treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it's a sort of rage against society.

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

My dad has a dry, deadpan sense of humor, and my mom has an unexpected, wacky take on things. They really encouraged laughing at ourselves and the weirdness of situations that come up growing up in politics.