Charles Lamb Quotes

Being witty was the only side effect of being depressed that was working for me.

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

So far, I should be calm and more specifically not like that...Anything else? Would you like to do surgery on my personality? How about open-heart surgery? I´ve got some tools

Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they're socially callous.

If you didn't have anxiety, then you wouldn't have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you're thoughtful.

I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.

I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.

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.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.

I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.

I'm feeling a little delicate.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There's entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.

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

I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing.

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.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

When I was a young man, I was overly sensitive to things, and I found it difficult to eat when I was nervous.

Everybody's funny in different ways.

I have friends who are so sarcastic but I never view it as mean.

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

I try to refrain from the alarmist statement, really I do. It's bad for the liver and worries the dog, who has plenty enough to worry about as it is.

You can make bleak things funny but if you're glib about it, it doesn't work.