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Facetiousness Quotes

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Stewart Stafford
“If you're ever accused of not taking things seriously, take it as a compliment. Humour is a sign of intelligence. Any objections to your facetiousness are likely an admission by the complainant that they are guilty of taking things way too seriously. The flaw lies with them.”
Stewart Stafford

Christina Engela
“The coining of a new (somewhat short-lived) term, ‘homophiliacâ€�, used by homophobes as an alternative to ‘homophobicâ€�, is no more than an exercise in facetiousness. The principle employed, is to try to present something morally reprehensible (homophobia) as something ordinary or innocuous â€� in the same way that racists avoid using words like ‘racistâ€� to describe themselves, in favor of wrapping their hatred in terms like ‘white prideâ€� in order to make the same thing seem less reprehensible than itself”
Christina Engela, Pearls Before Swine

“I'll be Bach, but I won't be Beethoven.

--The Symphonator”
douglas laurent

Dorothy L. Sayers
“I'm never serious. That's what my friends dislike about me.”
Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club