25 Metaphors for humors

Dickens's infectious humor is a remarkable and an unfailing quality of his works.

Do you know her equal?" Humor may be the greatest of the virtues, yet it is the one of whose possession we may boast with impunity.

I thought that humor of yours was my special prerogative of friendship.

The chief character is Morose, a rich old codger whose humor is a horror of noise.

My Lord, your humors are most strange to us, The humble fortune of a servants life Should in your carelesse state so much displease.

Her humor is the very quintessence of human experience, strikes deadly blows at what is unjust and untrue.

Although Chaucer's humor and excellence in lighter vein are such marked characteristics, we must not forget his serious qualities; for he has the Saxon seriousness as well as the Norman airiness.

Humor is an out-of-door virtue.

Humor is the laughter of the heart, and Sterne's pathos is closely interwoven with his humor.

" His humor is often a graceful cloak for his serious philosophy of existence.

Yes, I was quite out of my element, dearest Bettina; I was surprised by you at a moment when ill-humor was quite master of me, but it actually disappeared at sight of you.

Here is his definition of humor, ready to hand: humor is "the mental faculty of discovering, expressing, or appreciating ludicrous or absurdly incongruous elements in ideas, situations, happenings, or acts," with the added information that it is distinguished from wit as "less purely intellectual and having more kindly sympathy with human nature, and as often blended with pathos."

But humor was not, as with Thackeray and Dickens, her point of view.

"Why, he said that humor was an appreciation of the under side of things.

" Of all Shakespeare's qualities, his humor is the hardest to describe because of its protean forms.

[Footnote 152: The humor is the same here as p. 50, line 26.]

" Harte's humor is mostly "Western humor" There is not always uproarious merriment, but there is a constant background of humor.

A humor (compare humid) was once a "moisture"; then one of the four moistures or liquids that entered into the human constitution and by the proportions of their admixture determined human temperament; next a man's outstanding temperamental quality (the thing itself rather than the cause of it); then oddity which people may laugh at; then the spirit of laughter and good nature in general.

Addison's humor is always a trifle grave.

Blessed humor, no less refreshing today than was the humour of old to a parched and thirsty earth.

Real humor is only exaggeration.

When we like and appreciate Chaucerhis poetry, his humor, his good stories, his kind heart-it will be time enough to study his language.

His humor is not mere funniness and diversion; he is a humorist in the fundamental and large sense, as are Cervantes, Rabelais, and Mark Twain.

His humor is the conciliation that takes place between love and knowledge.

His humor is almost a philosophy of existence for those who love to use wit and ingenuity in trying to evade the laws of sober, orderly living.

25 Metaphors for  humors