40 Humorless Quotes
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Short Humorless Quotes
- Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people. — Robert Benchley
- The majority of philosophers are totally humorless. That's part of their trouble. — Bernard Williams
- Exercise, to qualify at all, must be lonely, painfu, humorless, and boring. — Barbara Holland
- Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau
- Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly. — Erica Jong
Joyless Quotes
I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live. — Frank Bruni
Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery. — Betty Friedan
Never till this day Did life disturb the dense eternity Of joyless quiet; never skylark's song, Or storm-bird's prescient scream, or eaglet's cry, Made vital the gross fog. The very light Is but an alien that can find no welcome — Hartley Coleridge
Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss. — Alan Moore
...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out. — E. M. Forster
My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility. — Robert Fripp
If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem! — Charlotte Bronte
Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time. — Walter Darby Bannard
The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless. — Dorothy L. Sayers
Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give. — Amy Lowell
People Writing About Humorless
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Robert Benchley |
144 | 827 |
 Bernard Williams |
47 | 2072 |
 Barbara Holland |
58 | 123 |
 Jean Cocteau |
218 | 1392 |
 Erica Jong |
382 | 2320 |
More Humorless Quotes
My logisticians are a humorless lot ... they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay. — Alexander The Great
As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in politics. That comes across as quite hard, tough and humorless, but you're trying to be taken seriously. — Nicola Sturgeon
I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that. — Campbell Scott
All I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.... The problem is finding smile-inducing evil people, because the evil are the most humorless, though in the movies they frequently get some of the best lines. — Dean Koontz
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless. — Evelyn Waugh
Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise! — Christopher Hitchens
Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life. — Christina Hoff Sommers
Have interesting failures.... If you need to have a personal crisis have it now. Don't wait until midlife, when it will take longer to resolve.... Don't pity yourselves. Lighten up. Seek people with a sense of humor. Avoid humorless people-and do not marry one, for God's sake. — Garrison Keillor
Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life. — Anthony Powell
By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it. — Joseph Collins
I did a lot of crazy gigs man. I hosted a Jack and Jill strip club in Woonsocket Rhode Island which is this tiny depressing fishing town, all Portuguese immigrants and it's just a humorless, dark town. — Joe Rogan
There's this idea like feminism is humorless and humorless in a way that's like a whistleblower. Like you're going to - you're going to make sure that nobody has any fun. And that's not true at all. I think feminism allows me to do what I do, and I'm so grateful to the idea of it and grateful to all the women that came before. — Margaret Cho
We were pretty normal - suburban kids having a good time playing in bands. We were silly. We weren't dark, intense, humorless people. Humor was one of the connecting forces among us. It was more like camaraderie. — David Pajo
I find it strange that - at least in my take on it - the people who are the most alarmed about the dire times we live in are the ones who seem to be humorless, in their taste for poetry anyway. Humor is just an ingredient. It's always been in poetry. It kind of dropped out of poetry I think during the 19th and up to the mid-twentieth century. But it's found its way back. And it's simply an ingredient. — Billy Collins
RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker. — Ambrose Bierce
Grover Norquist is a mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep... an embarrassing anomaly, the leering, drunken uncle everyone else wishes would stay home... [He] is repulsive, granted, but there aren't nearly enough of him to start a purge trial. — Tucker Carlson
I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow. — Ian MacKaye
The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as President, lived for more than thirty years after the White House; Truman, who worked intensely and gaily, lived for twenty — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity — Sayings
As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise---and inexplicably---to be envied. — Kay Redfield Jamison
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