Inspirational Quotes on Humour

“And who among the company at Monseigneur's reception in that seventeen hundred and eightieth year of our Lord, could possibly doubt, that a system rooted in a frizzled hangman, powdered, gold-laced, pumped, and white-silk stockinged, would see the very stars out!”

“The simple fact that he could, took the desire away, and the charm of it”

“Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it?”

“After than, the Head’s friends saw that the Head was no use as a head, so they got her made an inspector to interfere with other Heads. And when they found she wasn’t much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after.”

“it seems to me that the English aristocracy is not only the type, but is the crown and flower of all actual aristocracies; it has all the oligarchical virtues as well as all the defects. It is casual, it is kind, it is courageous in obvious matters; but it has one great merit that overlaps even these. The great and very obvious merit of the English aristocracy is that nobody could possibly take it seriously.”

“And if you weren’t a fool, a common fool, a perfect fool, if you were an original instead of a translation … you see, Rodya, I recognise you’re a clever fellow, but you’re a fool!”

“Слух у старой леди значительно улучшился, а злополучный мистер Миллер чувствовал себя выброшенным из родной стихии, как дельфин, посаженный в караульную будку.”

“Провалиться мне на месте, но мне кажется, когда человек очень беден, он выбегает из дому и в регулярном отчаянии поедает устрицы.”

“Очень жаль, что приходится прерывать такие приятные разговоры, как сказал король, распуская парламент.”

“Master Bates sauntering along with his hands in his pockets...”

“The elder Miss Larkin”

“I first heard of Parmenides' best-known assertion, "Whatever is, is." I laughed and blurted out, "And he's famous?" With this verbal ejaculation I revealed myself as the quintessential sophomore.”

“Latin, Arithmetic, Grammar, all were locked up for an hour in the dingy schoolroom. The teacher might be a noun if he wished, and a proper one at that, but they meant to enjoy themselves. As long as skating was as perfect as this, it made no difference whether Holland were on the North Pole or the Equator; and, as for Philosophy, how could they bother themselves about inertia and gravitation and such things, when it was as much as they could do to keep from getting knocked over in the commotion.”