"Sense of humor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he said to himself as he walked toward the garage. "Deliver me from an old woman who thinks she has a sense of humor." ...
— Prince or Chauffeur? - A Story of Newport • Lawrence Perry
... had learned more from his own temperament than from political expediency. It was bound up in his love of efficiency and also in his sense of humor. During this same hot conservation controversy he writes to an old friend, "I have no intention of saying anything in reply to Pinchot. He wrote me thirty pages to prove that I was a liar, and rather than read that again I will ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane
... Comedy" which proves that the delightful fellow-wanderer in Holland and in London has a keen sense of humor and a ...
— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis
... as the professional crooks put it, and getting away with such a fat bundle of "swag," you, my good reader, might naturally suppose that this shining light of the "System," contented with his profits, would pass on to new victims; or, if you have a mistaken impression of Mr. Rogers' sense of humor, for really he has a keen sense of the ridiculous—after five o'clock on week-days and all day Sunday—you might think he would take the opportunity to order me to tack up his card on the Utah office door, inscribed, "We will return ...
— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson
... many German officers in a rather familiar way. Many of the younger men reminded one of our university men at home; several of the older men resembled their well-set-up English cousins. This seemed particularly true of the navy, which has acquired a type—lean, keen, firm-lipped young men, with a sense of humor—entirely different from the German often seen in cafes, with no back to his head, and a neck overflowing his collar. Particularly interesting were those who, called back 'into uniform from responsible positions in civil ...
— Antwerp to Gallipoli - A Year of the War on Many Fronts--and Behind Them • Arthur Ruhl
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