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“The most important quality in a partner is a sense of humour.”

Important Quality Humour Partners

Author:Clare Balding

“Henry Kissinger is possessed of a truly superior intelligence, in addition to which he has two qualities which, unfortunately, many great men lack: he is able to listen and he has a very subtle sense of humour.”

Men Two Able Quality Humour Superiors Great Men Subtle Possessed Kissinger Henry Kissinger Superior Intelligence

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour.”

Quality Missing Humour

Author:Brendan Coyle

“One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.”

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Author:Bill Nighy

“A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man”

Men God Quality Humour Divine Funny Life

Book:101 Facts of life

Source: 101 Facts of life

“I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.”

Wells Said Two Different Quality Novel Humility Humour Reader Demand Empathy Aspect Apathy Prophetic Suspension

Book:Aspects Of the Novel

Source: Aspects Of the Novel

“It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its suggestiveness, through which it reveals a whole world of experience. It is not only in its remarkable use of the season word, by which it gives us a feeling of a quarter of the year; nor its faint all-pervading humour. Its peculiar quality is its self-effacing, self-annihilative nature, by which it enables us, more than any other form of literature, to grasp the thing-in-itself.”

World Giving Years Art Self Whole Use Feelings Form Literature Nature Quality Groups Humour Particular Seasons Whole World Remarkable Peculiar Quarters Haiku Brevity

Book:Haiku: Haiku

Source: Haiku: Haiku