humor

"They, the conservatives, are the real outsides, they tell us, gazing with disgust upon the ludicrous manners of the high and mighty. Or, they tell us, they are rough-and-ready proles, laughing along w…"

"As for the Rosenkavalier waltzes...how could I have done those without a thought of the laughing genius of Vienna?"

"Now there are some forms of apparel that may be worn or discarded as the fancy pleases with no other ill effects than a possible loss of social prestige. But spacesuits are not among them."

"You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius...."

"It gets worse and worse, it reinforces this idea of women as sexual objects, right; there's this idea of women as playthings for their amusement... we are not meant to be treated with respect."

"Honoria, you see, is one of those robust, dynamic girls with the muscles of a welterweight and a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge. A beastly thing to face over the breakfast…"

"Everything I've done in the last few years has been grim and gritty and traumatic. I've played floozies, psychopaths, assassins, crackheads.... It's nice to do something with a lighter touch, somethin…"

"There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact."

"Everything that’s difficult you should be able to laugh about."

"Jabir b. 'Abdullah reported: Abu Bakr came and sought permission to see Allah's Messenger . He found people sitting at his door and none amongst them had been granted permission, but it was granted to…"

"Maggie Haberman on Twitter"

"With my own group I like to keep it loose. They have to counter rather than go with me. When they stop I like to be moving."

"As we jogg on, either laugh with me, or at me, or in short do any thing—only keep your temper."

"A lot of women play guitar very respectfully, and they play with the guitar; they don't play it—they play with it."

"The most important effects of Christianity went out from it without the intention of the Church, or even against its will."

"The number of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public."

"But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen."

"Dance with her, and she will forgive much; dance well, and she will forgive anything."

"Critical note.—Of a piece with the absurd pedagogical demand for so-called constructive criticism is the doctrine that an iconoclast is a hollow and evil fellow unless he can prove his case. Why, inde…"

"Juvenal's first 3 "Satires" in English"