Sometimes, the best way to brighten your day is with a little playful nonsense. Fun nonsense quotes have a unique charm—they make us smile, spark imagination, and remind us not to take life too seriously. In this collection, we’ve gathered 38 of the most entertaining and whimsical quotes that celebrate silliness and the joy of nonsense. Get ready to laugh, ponder, and enjoy a lighthearted escape from the ordinary.
1. “Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.” - Lewis Carroll
2. “I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time" so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.” - Steven Wright
3. “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” - Lewis Carroll
4. “Beauty should be edible, or not at all.” - Salvador Dali
5. “Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly."I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more.""You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing.""Nobody asked your opinion," said Alice.” - Lewis Carroll
6. “Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.” - Gary Zukav
7. “I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.” - Oscar Wilde
8. “...indeed, with the Radletts, you never could tell. Why, for instance, would Victoria bellow like a bull and half kill Jassy whenever Jassy said, in a certain tone of voice, pointing her finger with a certain look, "Fancy?" I think they hardly knew why, themselves.” - Nancy Mitford
9. “Smee! Raise the Ladies!” - Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
10. “How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that.” - C.S. Lewis
11. “Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?” - Norton Juster
12. “One man’s nonsense is another man’s sense.” - Peter Cameron
13. “She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.” - Jeannette Walls
14. “If you say that you'd never hurt anybody,you're lack of emphaty and full of bullshit.” - Toba Beta
15. “The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!” - Lewis Carroll
16. “Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.” - David Hume
17. “Oh! I killed Bunbury this afternoon... I mean poor Bunbury died this afternoon.What did he die of?Bunbury? Oh, he was exploded!” - Oscar Wilde
18. “Nothing is a masterpiece - a real masterpiece - till it's about two hundred years old. A picture is like a tree or a church, you've got to let it grow into a masterpiece. Same with a poem or a new religion. They begin as a lot of funny words. Nobody knows whether they're all nonsense or a gift from heaven. And the only people who think anything of 'em are a lot of cranks or crackpots, or poor devils who don't know enough to know anything. Look at Christianity. Just a lot of floating seeds to start with, all sorts of seeds. It was a long time before one of them grew into a tree big enough to kill the rest and keep the rain off. And it's only when the tree has been cut into planks and built into a house and the house has got pretty old and about fifty generations of ordinary lumpheads who don't know a work of art from a public convenience, have been knocking nails in the kitchen beams to hang hams on, and screwing hooks in the walls for whips and guns and photographs and calendars and measuring the children on the window frames and chopping out a new cupboard under the stairs to keep the cheese and murdering their wives in the back room and burying them under the cellar flags, that it begins even to feel like a religion. And when the whole place is full of dry rot and ghosts and old bones and the shelves are breaking down with old wormy books that no one could read if they tried, and the attic floors are bulging through the servants' ceilings with old trunks and top-boots and gasoliers and dressmaker's dummies and ball frocks and dolls-houses and pony saddles and blunderbusses and parrot cages and uniforms and love letters and jugs without handles and bridal pots decorated with forget-me-nots and a piece out at the bottom, that it grows into a real old faith, a masterpiece which people can really get something out of, each for himself. And then, of course, everybody keeps on saying that it ought to be pulled down at once, because it's an insanitary nuisance.” - Joyce Cary
19. “That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.” - L.M. Montgomery
20. “Otulissa swelled up to twice her normal size. 'Well, SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!” - Kathryn Lasky
21. “My father is a fish.” - Theodore Roethke
22. “No, that flapping isn't all the pigeons in the park zeroing in on some spilled popcorn!That antediluvian (old and prehistoric) scream that's numbing your brain isn't a subway on a curve!No, it's the one and only Thunderbird --just released from a long, long nap in a cave on the Kijowa reservation by Tom Tallwolf and J. Jay Jaye, known as The Big Promoter! But it looks like all he's promoted now is...trouble with wings!” - Bob Haney
23. “The safe and cultural method of eating crackers in bed is to wear a diver's suit instead of pajamas.” - Basil Wolverton
24. “I took a bunch of pictures. You can see 'em on my MySpace page, along with my favorite songs and movies and things that other people have created but that I use to express my individualism.” - Christopher Paolini
25. “As long as one person reads the bullshit I put on paper, and likes it, i'll keep writing.” - Benjamin Bayani
26. “I want to write. I've already told my mother: That's what I want to do-write. No answer the first time. Then she asks, Write what? I say, Books, novels. [...] She's against it, it's not worthy, it's not real work, it's nonsense. Later she said, A childish idea.” - Marguerite Duras
27. “You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers.” - Dejan Stojanovic
28. “Just got to fnafflebrump caddwallame, all right?" Edie says, and no one pays attention. She learned at Lady Gravely's that nonsense which can be misheard is a very good way to lie without getting caught. People just insert whatever they think you must be doing, and - having lied to themselves on your behalf - are disinclined to check up on you.” - Nick Harkaway
29. “Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.” - Criss Jami
30. “If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.” - Norton Juster
31. “A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.” - W. Somerset Maugham
32. “It was badly received by the generation to which it was first addressed, and the outpouring of angry nonsense to which it gave rise is sad to think upon. But the present generation will probably behave just as badly if another Darwin should arise, and inflict upon them that which the generality of mankind most hate—the necessity of revising their convictions. Let them, then, be charitable to us ancients; and if they behave no better than the men of my day to some new benefactor, let them recollect that, after all, our wrath did not come to much, and vented itself chiefly in the bad language of sanctimonious scolds. Let them as speedily perform a strategic right-about-face, and follow the truth wherever it leads.” - Thomas Henry Huxley
33. “I love full on, like 65 mph in a handicapped parking spot. ” - Dark Jar Tin Zoo
34. “What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Chronicler snapped. "You're just spouting nonsense now.""I'm spouting too much sense for you to understand," Bast said testily.” - Patrick Rothfuss
35. “Rest assured you make perfectly good nonsense. I understand you one-hundred-percent not at all.” - Richelle E. Goodrich
36. “Natural rights, nonsense; natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense, elevated nonsense, nonsense going on stilts.” - John Stuart Mill
37. “When people get into their 30s plus "boyfriend" sounds weird...if you really think about it. Instead, I think we should universally start using the term "manfriend" or "snookie bookie cuddles pie".” - Michelle M. Pillow
38. “...you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.” - Dianna Hardy
