“I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.”
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961)
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Edward Albee32
American playwright 1928–2016Related quotes
“A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.”
Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer
Sand and Foam (1926)
Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist
Essays and reviews, Clive James On Television (1991)
“Basically, the Germans came to us and said, "We don't have a sense of humour."”
Eric Idle (1943) British comedian, actor, singer and writer
Answering the question "Why did you do two episodes in German?" on an HBO March 1998 Python reunion special.
William Ralph Inge (1860–1954) Dean of St Pauls
"Confessio Fidei" http://archive.org/stream/outspokenessays00ingeiala#page/24/mode/2up/search/I+have+never+understood+why+it+should+be+considered+derogatory+to+the+Creator+to+suppose+that+he+has+a+sense+of+humour, Outspoken Essays (Second Series) (1922)
“A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man”
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
“We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.”
Oscar Wilde book De Profundis
De Profundis (1897)