Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

I have some sarcastic sides of me.

I guess I don't have much interest in writing straight drama. So whatever subject matter I choose will ultimately be dealt with in a comic way.

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.

And sometimes you can make your point better with comedy than you can through shouting about it.

You know what's the greatest part of anything ever in the history of everything? Exaggeration. No, wait; it's correcting yourself. No, better yet, it's making lists.

We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

I am a comedian and you guys know whatever I say, I don't mean any of it.

Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on ourselves.

In comedy, falling means laughter. You can take something sacred and make it silly. The more sacred it is, the funnier it is. It has a bigger drop to fall.

He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fisherman and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.

There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.

Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!

I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic.

Nice tights," I snorted. Or I tried to snort, anyway. I'm not exactly sure how, though people in books are always doing it.

The problem with these interviews is that there's no sarcastic font.

But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately two years after that, and even Sunny, who had just passed out of babyhood, was not born yesterday. Neither were you, unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.

I used to love going fishing. I think it was really about the clothes. Nothing says real man like a vest with 38 pockets and a mesh hat with hooks in it.

It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain mines.

I think Georges Feydeau said comedy is just tragedy speeded up.

There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on nut.

The place was so British, I wouldn't have been surprised if the mice wore monocles.