Quotes by John Oliver

“It is going to be too easy for things to start feeling normalespecially if you are someone who is not directly impacted by his actions. So keep reminding yourself:This is not normal.Write it on a P...”

“The German language is so sonorous, isn't it? Beautiful language...the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry.”

“Democracy is like a tamborine - not everyone can be trusted with it.”

“If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.”

“It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.”

“Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.”

“In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to projec...”

“Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and th...”

“Men ... always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.”

“Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us because some other hour might take it away?”

“Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.”

“I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted-if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.”

“I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. When you go back to Britain, everybody is just running everything down. It's like whatever the o...”

“There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers.”

“People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on 'The Daily Show'... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.”

“It is going to be too easy for things to start feeling normal—especially if you are someone who is not directly impacted by his actions. So keep reminding yourself:This is not normal.Write it on a ...”

“Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us because some other hour might take it away?”

“It's very dangerous, a British person saying I felt ownership of this country. Historically, does not go well. It's amazing! I just went to India and I felt like I belonged.”

“I would say, what is more quintessentially America than coming to a country you don't belong in and deciding you're going to stay?”

“Thanks very much for taking this magical moment and reminding me that joy is ephemeral, pain is forever.”