Sinclair Lewis Quotes

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

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

Reed Scott is really good at coming up with insults.

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.'

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

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

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.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

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

Humor is hostility.

Feminists have no sense of humor, but clearly God did in creating feminists

So I guess your wooden leg makes you a table.

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.

I find it really appalling when people talk about comedy.

Half-brights consider it comedy gold to congratulate anyone they dislike for 'winning the Kentucky Derby!' The only thing more bracingly original to not-smart people is: 'Stay classy!'

You would have to be born with a gene that doesn't allow you to recognize sarcasm if you take anything I say seriously.

I find myself laughing at really bad situations.

My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.

It's hard to make a joke out of someone that's a joke.

Comedy is based partly on mean-spiritedness.