Umberto Eco Quotes

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

I don't mean to be funny.

I can be very dry and sarcastic.

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

Oh, I've never been asked a silly question in my entire life.

People are always saying, 'You use irony,' and it's like, actually, we don't use irony: we use wit and playfulness and irreverence.

I can be sarcastic.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

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

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

I'm not serious most of the time.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.

Anybody who knows me knows that half the time I'm saying things with a somewhat humorous overtone.

I can't be serious, apparently.

I like to make fun of serious matters.

I'm the one who is always bantering. Millie Bright and Rach Daly are pretty bad. Jill Scott is up there, too, but I'm probably the one who initiates it all, and people come back at me.

You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.

I'm really sarcastic. Not Morgan Webb sarcastic. She's dry, 100%. I'm different from her.

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

At this point, we've ripped on everyone.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.