Quote by Virginia Woolf
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. - V

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. – Virginia Woolf

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Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women? – Virginia Woolf

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But humor is too delicate and evanescent a thing to be extracted from a book like plums from a pudding. – Beatrix, “What to Read,” The Household, supplement to Michigan Farmer and State

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I dont have a very quick sense of humor. – Florenz Ziegfeld

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Ive always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I dont say anything for shock value. – Amy Schumer

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Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning – its a man or a woman without a sense of humor. – Jonathan Winters

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