“Basically, the Germans came to us and said, "We don't have a sense of humour."”

“Sometimes humour is all we have to say the things that can't be said.”

“We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.”

“Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgement and should be trusted with nothing.”

“A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.”

“I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.”

“I fell in love with her for her sense of humour. If she ever lost her sense of humour, I would have to dump her. Then I'd kill myself because I couldn't live without her.”

“(I’ve often noticed that people equate “having a sense of humour” with “being an insensitive moron.”)”

“Reginald, in his way, was a pioneer.
None of the rest of his family had anything approaching Titian hair or a sense of humour, and they used primroses as a table decoration.
It follows that they never understood Reginald, who came down late to breakfast, and nibbled toast, and said disrespectful things about the universe. The family ate porridge, and believed in everything, even the weather forecast.”

“We have to realize that the way of thinking that got us to this place no longer holds. We have to rethink elements as basic as space and time, to go all science fictiony [sic] on you in this sense.”