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Quotes About Banter

I'm not big on meeting new people, especially new people I'm never going to see again. There's all kinds of uninteresting, insincere banter, I have to pretend to be a nice person, and because 96 percent of the world's population are dim bulbs, odds are excellent that I'll be stuck in the middle of a Spontaneous Freak Encounter.
~ Laurie Notaro
You aren't too smart, are you? I like that in a man.
~ Lawrence Kasdan
Don't be a smart aleck," Hungry said. "But it cheers me up," I said.
~ Lemony Snicket
You could make anything boring, Mimi! You're like a magic wand of boring!" "Well, you're like a magic wand of bad breath!" "I get bad breath because I eat what you cook!
~ Lemony Snicket
my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be...
~ Jane Austen
Its always nice to have a stud muffin at the table.
~ Janet Evanovich
You fainted, I told Tank. I did not, Tank said. That's a lie.
~ Janet Evanovich
Valerie was crying, too. She was laughing and sniffling back sobs. "I'm going to marry my snuggy wuggums," she said. Morelli paused, his fork halfway to the roast chicken platter. He slid his eyes to me and leaned close. "If you ever call me snuggy wuggums in public I'll lock you in the cellar and chain you to the furnace.
~ Janet Evanovich
Good grief. Are you flirting with me? Honey, my intentions are way past flirting. Your intentions could get you a knee in the groin. Nick grinned. At least your mind's on the right body part.
~ Janet Evanovich
I'd kiss you, but you smell like a gym bag.
~ Janet Evanovich
Diesel sucked air. You keep fondling me like that, and I might have to marry you. I'm not fondling you. I'm looking for the keys! Could you look a little more gently? You're scaring my boys.
~ Janet Evanovich
I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
~ Mae West
Everyone that I have taken the mick out of, or told a story about, is someone I know properly or someone who has been a team-mate, and I know can take it. I am not stitching anyone up.
~ Peter Crouch
All the other guys I think had a scream on Lock, Stock. They just had a laugh and a crack, and thought it would never come out; they were just having a good time. On this one, I felt that.
~ Guy Ritchie
I remember when I worked at the solicitor's - you'd go in, talk to your mates for a bit and then get down to work. With us the talking to your mates part never stops.
~ Bob Mortimer
I have to have people around who are of a certain strain of humour. I can't deal with people who have no humour.
~ Jeff Beck
When you know someone you can make a little more fun of them without them getting offended.
~ Jimmy Kimmel
So, do you live around here often?
~ Steven Wright
I remember Nigel Martyn joking with me at Leeds, saying he was old enough to be my father, which he certainly was.
~ James Milner
My mother-in-law said, 'One day I will dance on your grave.' I said 'I hope you do; I will be buried at sea.'
~ Les Dawson
My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful. It is almost as disgraceful as the way Gwendolen flirts with you.
~ Oscar Wilde
I love talking about nothing, father.  It is the only thing I know anything about. lord
~ Oscar Wilde
though the conversation always touched an exceptionally high level of brilliance, there was apt to be a good deal of sugar thrown about.
~ p g wodehouse
Hey, which one of them is supposed to be your boyfriend?" Stark asked me. Even in the terrible shape he was in, he caught my glance with his. His voice was scratchy, and he sounded scarily weak, but his eyes sparkled with humor. "I am!" Heath and Erik said together.
~ P.C. Cast