Humor Quote by Salman Rushdie — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”

“All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own,' said Birbal, 'and so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.”

“How treacherous history is! Half-truths, ignorance, deceptions, false trails, errors, and lies, and buried somewhere in between all of that, the truth, in which it is easy to lose faith, of which it is consequently easy to say, it’s a chimera, there’s no such thing, everything is relative, one man’s absolute belief is another man’s fairy tale; but about which we insist, we insist most emphatically, that it is too important an idea to give up to the relativity merchants.”

“Fury...sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal....drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths”

“Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.”

“He had a bleeding cut on his leg and he smelled like shit.”

“Closed. Plenty of time to see it later, remember?" He leads me into the courtyard, and I take the opportunity to admire his backside. Callipygian. There”

“Bishop was all done with the witty conversation. 'Will you swear?'”

“It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.”

“Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.”

“I never know," Harry called to Hagrid over the noise of the cart, "What's the difference between a stalagmite and a stalactite?”