Humorlessly Quotes & Sayings

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly. — Erica Jong

Furthermore, they must learn not to make the elementary mistake of assuming that because a word contains a negative suffix or prefix it is necessarily a negative word. In-, for instance, almost always implies negation but not with invaluable, while -less is equally negative, as a rule, but not with priceless. — Bill Bryson

Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art. — Sara Blakely

The more you say true things, the more you will be respected; the more you will respected, the more you shall feel to be obliged to say even truer things! Every true path at the beginning opens the paths of even greater and stronger truths in the future! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He's as old as time and has the temperament of someone who shit the bed and has been rolling around in it all day. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless. — Emilio Estevez

Ruxs finally calmed after several minutes and looked up at him. "What are you saying, Chris?" Green went down on his knees so he was eye level with him. "I'm saying: Why didn't you talk to me, Mark? How long have you been feeling like this?" "Long enough to drive me crazy." Ruxs laughed humorlessly. Green stared at him. He put his hands on Ruxs cheeks. "Com'ere," he whispered. Ruxs' eyes widened slightly, his voice a hushed murmur, "Are you gay?" Green smirked. "Are you? Just shut up and come here." Ruxs — A.E. Via

The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as President, lived for more than thirty years after the White House; Truman, who worked intensely and gaily, lived for twenty — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house. — Vanessa Paradis

Swaddle in our favorites, we missed out on what was in our peripheral vision. — Sherry Turkle

Lazarus had never thought of himself as lovable. Therefore it should come as no shock at all that Temperance did not, in fact, love him. No, not a shock ... but it would have been nice had she had some small feeling for him.
Lazarus pondered his own sickening craving as he guided his black gelding through the London morning throng the day after he'd walked out on Temperance. It appeared that his own nascent emotions had provoked a new desire as well: the urge to be loved. How banal. And yet, banal or not, he could not change the way his heart felt.
A corner of his mouth quirked up humorlessly. It seemed he must be like other men after all. — Elizabeth Hoyt

The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history. — L.M. Montgomery

So where does that leave us?" I wondered. He chuckled humorlessly. "I believe it's called an impasse. — Stephenie Meyer