#Shock Quotes

“Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth”

“Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)”

“As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.”

“I did not think I would see the day when, you know, an AIG would not be able to have its checks clear.”

“My God. What's happened?”

“When I beat Sonny Liston, I shocked the world. When I joined the Muslims, I shocked the world. When I beat George Forman, I shocked the world. I am from the House of Shock”

“Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!”

“The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.”

“Now, some people do this for shock value. Shock is just another uptown word for surprise. Granted it has a different quality to it, but a joke is about surprising someone. I'm a great believer in context. You can joke about anything. I do like finding out where the line is drawn, deliberately crossing it and bringing some of them with me across the line, and having them be happy that I did.”

“Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these photographs did.”

“I don't like the phrase shock value. Surprise is essential in comedy, and if people are shocked by what I consider merely surprising, then that's their shock. But there is no joke without surprise.”

“Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke.”

“I like happy things, I'm really calm and peaceful. I like birds, bees, I like people. I like funny things that make me happy and gleeful... like when my teacher sucked my wee-wee in pre-school!”

“We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.”

“And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.”