“Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle, but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.” IfsMenNeedsGivingHumourSightMortalsSwimRiflesAffront Book:Feast of Stephen Source: Feast of Stephen
“Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.” HumansVoiceHumourSorrowHighestReconciliationPathos Book:Leacock on Life Source: Leacock on Life
“All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour, and all such humour, has saved or at least greatly served the world.” WorldHumourTragedySavedCollapseNeuroticPrematureDickens Book:My Remarkable Uncle Source: My Remarkable Uncle
“Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.” MightHumourContrastComforter Book:Leacock on Life Source: Leacock on Life
