Quotes about funny
funny humorous men
Charles Dickens Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
funny children flower
Charles Dickens It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster.
funny humorous mind
Charles Dickens I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.
funny morning self
Charles Dickens All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.
funny death witty
Charles Dickens He would make a lovely corpse.
funny kings humorous
Charles Dickens It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.
funny people literature
Charles Dickens Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
funny christmas xmas
Charles Dickens Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
funny law people
Charles Dickens If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
funny marriage wedding
Charles Caleb Colton Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
funny age fifty
Charles Caleb Colton I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
funny sarcastic yield
Charles Caleb Colton Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
funny wise humor
Charles Caleb Colton Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
funny humorous soul
Charles Dickens She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.
funny book dark
Charles Dickens When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour and blue-mould upon him. Then only was he permitted to be seen, spectacularly poring over large books, and casting his breeches and gaiters into the general weight of the establishment.
funny humorous expectations
Charles Dickens I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.
funny humorous rolling
Charles Dickens For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.
funny humorous majority
Charles Dickens In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article
funny humorous thinking
Charles Dickens Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.
funny humorous passion
Charles Dickens There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.
funny christian children
Charles Dickens "Peggotty!" repeated Miss Betsey, with some indignation. "Do you mean to say, child, that any human being has gone into a Christian church, and got herself named Peggotty?"
funny humorous twins
Charles Dickens "The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned..."
funny humorous aunt
Charles Dickens "Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting."
funny humorous mean
Charles Dickens Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism; for in ancient days those two amusements, combining a wholesome excitement with a promising means of repairing shattered fortunes, were at once the ennobling pursuit and the healthful recreation of the Quality of this land.
funny drinking humorous
Charles Dickens Both Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa had a superstition, however, that he would have declared his passion, if he had not been cut short in his youth (at about sixty) by over-drinking his constitution, and over-doing an attempt to set it right again by swilling Bath water.
funny humorous hands
Charles Dickens He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and full and gave great importance to every word he uttered. He listened to himself with obvious satisfaction and sometimes gently beat time to his own music with his head or rounded a sentence with his hand.
funny humorous fire
Charles Dickens "Next," said Mrs Wilfer with a wave of her gloves, expressive of abdication under protest from the culinary throne, "I would recommend examination of the bacon in the saucepan on the fire, and also of the potatoes by the application of a fork. Preparation of the greens will further become necessary if you persist in this unseemly demeanour."
funny morning humorous
Charles Dickens The Secretary, working in the Dismal Swamp betimes next morning, was informed that a youth waited in the hall who gave the name of Sloppy. The footman who communicated this intelligence made a decent pause before uttering the name, to express that it was forced on his reluctance by the youth in question, and that if the youth had had the good sense and good taste to inherit some other name it would have spared the feelings of him the bearer.
funny taken humorous
Charles Dickens A modest ring at the bell at length allayed her fears, and Miss Benton, hurrying into her own room and shutting herself up, in order that she might preserve that appearance of being taken by surprise which is so essential to the polite reception of visitors, awaited their coming with a smiling countenance.
funny running humorous
Charles Dickens He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave.
funny humorous average
Charles Dickens He was drunk upon the average once a day, and penitent upon an equally fair calculation once a month; and when he was penitent, he was invariably in the very last stage of maudlin intoxication. He was a ragged, roving, roaring kind of fellow, with a burly form, a sharp wit, and a ready head, and could turn his hand to anything when he chose to do it.
funny humorous green
Charles Dickens Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it!