Like many humorless and indignant people, he is hard on everybody but himself, and does not perceive it when he fails his own ideal.

Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

What we eventually run up against are the forces of humourlessness, and let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.

A sense of humor is a serious business; and it isn't funny, not having one. Watch the humorless closely: the cocked and furtive way they monitor all conversation, their flashes of panic as irony or exaggeration eludes them, the relief with which they submit to the meaningless babble of unanimous laughter. The humorless can programme themselves to relish situations of human farce or slapstick — and that's about it. They are handicapped in the head, or mentally 'challenged', as Americans say (euphemism itself being a denial of humour). The trouble is that the challenge wins, every time, hands down. The humorless have no idea what is going on and can't make sense of anything at all.

He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.

I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.

Crowd men have no sense of humor. It is very difficult to educate solemn and opinionated people.

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.

Livingstone Hopkins had an infirmity common to most professional humorists; in himself, he was quite humourless.

Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.

Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.

Man, when he realizes that he is an object of comedy, does not laugh.