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«America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.»
Author: David Riesman
| About:
America and Americans,
Country,
Humor
| Keywords:
Chinese, concealment, humorous, inscrutable, ironical, legendary, matches
«A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.»
Author: Percy Ross
(Columnist)
| Keywords:
clever, closed-door, closed, doors, humorous, on request, request, requested
«I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.»
Author: Anne Frank
(Author)
| Keywords:
amusing, diaries, diary, downcast, hiding, housewives, humorous, Interesting Times, later on, made-up, privation, privations, romantic, sole
«The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don't you worry.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
close corporation, corporation, electing, good-for-nothing, humorous, intend, jolly, leap, oxford, squeeze, successors, the revolution, untidy, when the time comes
«There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages»
«I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious - unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force»
«The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
comic, humorous, The Comic, The Telling, witty
«Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.... It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination....»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abnormally, exaggeration, humorous, poetic
«I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Resignation
| Keywords:
frame of mind, humorous, resignation, The Conduct of Life