Agnes Repplier Quotes

I can be quite serious sometimes so laughing is key.

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

It's always fun to make people laugh, and then make them afraid or cry at the same time.

Not enough comedy makes you feel something.

Humor is the secret into the audience's other ranges of emotions.

If we do not know what humor is, that may be because we do not know what humankind is.

Very often in Chekhov, where he exhibits a little bit of human behavior that you recognize as true, you give a little laugh. It's like a reflex.

I think everything benefits from a little comedy. The worst thing to me is to see a great drama or a great thriller with no laughs.

I don't take myself or the species too seriously. You have to laugh at everything.

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

There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

"Nasty Man" isn't a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because we'd go crazy if we didn't keep laughing.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.

I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.

Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.

I am serious about not being serious.