Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. – Thomas Carlyle

Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortunes inequality exhibits under this sun. – Thomas Carlyle

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The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, wont in the end affirm or deny anything. – Thomas Carlyle

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Humor
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Think about scary movies: Theres a fine line between horror and humor. – Roy Blount, Jr.

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But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something. – Dabney Coleman

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Its self-effacing, its hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor. – Jerry Leiber

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I have a dark sense of humor. – Olivia Munn

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