Humor Quotes

Laughter as philosophy. The funniest, sharpest observations about the absurdity of being alive.

21194 quotes

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"Better sleep with a cannibal than a Christian!"
Ishmael
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"The only way for a woman to behave to a woman who behaves badly is to behave worse."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"I am not a thin man but broad in the beam."
Ishmael
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"The world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them."
The Narrator
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"You have delighted us long enough."
Mr. Bennet
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"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has no defect."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"You have delighted us long enough."
Mr. Bennet
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"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"
Mr. Bennet
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"Nobody can blame you for refusing a man who is lame."
Mr. Bennet
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"There are some certain queer times and places in this odd world when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke."
Ishmael
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"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"You have delighted us long enough."
Mr. Bennet
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"My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"I felt that I had been growing a considerable beard in the course of the last few days"
Pip
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"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke."
Ishmael
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"You have delighted us long enough."
Mr. Bennet
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"Where is my book? I laid it down somewhere."
Mr. Bennet
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"Pray do not suppose that I moved to Hunsford for the purpose of marrying you."
Charlotte Lucas
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"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."
Ishmael
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"I am the Ape that prances on the platform of the world."
Ishmael
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"I will have the first night of my bridal bed!"
Ishmael
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"You have delighted us long enough."
Mr. Bennet
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"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"Everybody has a right to be ridiculous sometimes."
Mr. Bennet
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"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."
Elizabeth Bennet