Deadpan Humour Quotes & Sayings

It's not easy. It never is. That is the secret our parents fail to tell us, out of kindness and love, but it's a secret we need to know. Everything that begins, ends. Everything beautiful disappears. — Alice Hoffman

Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things. — Thomas Merton

Felix wasn't sure of his limits, if he had limits. After he'd been dead a while, he began to suspect he could swim to the bottom of the oceans. Beyond that. He suspected that he could swim so far down that he'd eventually go through the center of the earth and come out the other side. He could swim into the clouds, into the stars. Maybe there were ghosts on the other planets. Maybe there were ghosts laughing and splashing each other with the heat of the sun. He wasn't brave enough to find out. — Lauren DeStefano

Sometimes being around children was the perfect abstinence program. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Its deadpan and her sarcasm sailed straight on past each other, strangers passing on a dark road in the night. — Nicole Kornher-Stace

Lipstick?" He arched a brow.
"I'm on the hunt for my perfect shade," I respond, deadpan.
"Ditch the magenta. Your olive skin screams for rose." His deadpan is better than mine. — Gena Showalter

The Lord's way to help those in temporal need requires people who out of love have consecrated themselves and what they have to God and to His work. — Henry B. Eyring

We need learn what we need to learn, know what we need to know, and do what we need to do. — Thomas S. Monson

An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing. — Charlotte Mason

It was almost noon when the plane touched down at the Triad airport on the outskirts of Greensboro. There was a hire car waiting for me; I waved my notepad at the dashboard to transmit my profile, then waited as the seating and controls rearranged themselves slightly, piezoelectric actuators humming. As I started to reverse out of the parking bay, the stereo began a soothing improvisation, flashing up a deadpan title: Music for Leaving Airports 11 June 2008. — Greg Egan

People, particularly over-moralistic Americans, have often seen me as a pessimist and humourless to boot, yet I think I have an almost maniacal sense of humour. The problem is that it's rather deadpan. — J.G. Ballard

The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love. — Martin Short

lie consists in speaking something we know is false with the intention of deceiving. This is the most direct offense against — Charles Pope

He wasn't sure which one of them initiated the kiss, but it started soft and then went sweet and then went tender and then went tinder, and then went out-of-control blaze. — Amy Lane

When everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking. — Roger Von Oech