"Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it."

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Source : George Saintsbury (1950). “A Last Vintage: Essays and Papers”

George Saintsbury

#Humor Quotes #Savages Quotes #Curious Quotes

“Itâ€™s hard, in America, not to equate â€˜happinessâ€™ with â€˜thingsâ€™.”
“The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.”

Source : Gerard Manley Hopkins (1967). “Selections; chosen and edited by Graham Storey”
“and how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not come so grandly, so Biblically, but more subtly and intimately in the face of the one you know you have to love”
“Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.”
“At the State of the Union address last night, President Obama made history by using the words transgender, lesbian, and bisexual in that speech. It was the part of the speech where he was just reading Craigslist personals.”
“Iâ€™m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.”
“The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.”

Source : Jacob Morton Braude (1966). “Speaker's desk book of quips, quotes, & anecdotes”
“Yeah, my parents help me keep my feet on the ground.”

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