Clive James
(1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist
“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.”
Essays and reviews, Clive James On Television (1991)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sen…" by Clive James?
Clive James 151
Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator an… 1939–2019Related quotes
“A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.”
Khalil Gibran
(1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer
Sand and Foam (1926)
“I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.”
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961)
“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)
“A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.”
William James
(1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
“They won’t put up a statue to me. No, no, no. Nobody’s got that sense of humour.”
Robert Muldoon
(1921–1992) Prime Minister of New Zealand, politician
Source: From the documentary Robert Muldoon: The Grim Face of Power, 1994
Context: Responding to a journalist while attending the unveiling of a statue of Sir Keith Holyoake.
“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.