- 2004, Joseph Wiesenfarth, History and Representation in Ford Madox Ford's Writings, page 227:
- The humorousnesses of Shakespeare and the bitternesses of Dante set on edge the teeth of the generations immediately succeeding each of them –
- 2002, Ford Madox Ford, Max Saunders, Richard Stang, Critical Essays, page 229:
- Here and there half a page or half a canto will be given up to humorousnesses that might well have delighted us when we were in the fourth form –
- 1990, Stephen Thomas Knight, The Selling of the Australian Mind: From First Fleet to Third Mercedes, page 97:
- After a few properly signalled humorousnesses, however, the cue is taken and people will have a good time. But they won't expect it again.
