A Quote by W. Somerset Maugham
It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.
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Please, Kate. Suspend your dislike of me for a few moments and listen to what I have to say. It makes sense." "I don't dislike you. It's an oversimplification.
We must sometimes bear with little defects in others, as we have, against our will, to bear with natural defects in ourselves. If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects.
I always like a character who makes me laugh.
We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.
It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.
I love anyone who surprises me and makes me laugh.
My son makes me super giddy, especially when he laughs. His laugh makes me laugh like a maniac!
Even the idea of a fart makes me laugh. Saying the word 'fart' makes me laugh. I have iFart on my phone. I have remote whoopee cushions. Farts. To me, there's nothing funnier.
Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don't like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. It's just not for me.
David Wain's character on 'Bob's Burgers' is really funny and silly and makes me laugh.
I can only write what makes me laugh, and what makes me laugh is the comedy I grew up on.
I have a country-boy sense of humor. I come from a poor family, and I have no education. But I am Middle America, and what makes me laugh is what makes them laugh.
Love or hate me, like or dislike me, laugh at me or cry with me, I have always shown you who I really am.
Lavatorial humour is just not my cup of tea. But, having said that, I'm really of the mind that comedy is so subjective and whatever makes you laugh makes you laugh. If it doesn't make you laugh, don't watch it.
On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I cannot stand it.
Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understand, to have powers which I cannot have. Music seems to me to act like yawning or laughter; I have no desire to sleep, but I yawn when I see others yawn; with no reason to laugh, I laugh when I hear others laugh. And music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time. ~The Kreutzer Sonata
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