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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Humor |
| Unconscious humor. Samuel Butler—Life and Habit. (Pub. 1877). Butler claims to have been the first user of the phrase as a synonym for dullness. | 1 |
| Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. Carlyle—Essays. Schiller. | 2 |
| I never dare to write As funny as I can. Holmes—The Height of the Ridiculous. | 3 |
| Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh; And ’tis no marvel he is so humorous. Henry IV. Pt. I. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 233. | 4 |
| There’s the humour of it. Merry Wives of Windsor. Act I. Sc. 1. (Inserted by Theobald from the quarto.) | 5 |
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