Quotes About Wit

The comedy I like the best is comedy I can't do, stuff that doesn't touch my arena.

My mother's mother is a very tough cookie. She buried three husbands. Two of them were just napping.

I never approach comedy thinking 'I know it all.' Comedy is tough. To make people laugh is not easy.

I believe it is tough to be funny and tougher to make people laugh. And it needs to be been done effortlessly. A joke can be comedy, but one can kill the joke if it is delivered badly.

I genuinely like to make people laugh. It is one of the toughest things to do.

Most of my artwork is geared towards being humorous in some light.

I guess my sense of humour leans more towards irony and tongue-in-cheek performance.

there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said.

We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

You can get away with saying much more with humor than you can with a straight face

Well, I always enjoy a case more once witnesses start quoting Shakespeare, don't you?

May I remind you that you are speaking to someone capable of smiting you with a thunderbolt?" "Is there any point to flirting with a girl who is not capable of that?

I will have you know that I have the brightest mind and the keenest wit. Why, people are often astounded by the perspicacity of my discourse and the subtlety of my insight!" He

Intelligence once meant more than what any artificial intelligence does. It used to include sensibility, sensitivity, awareness, discernment, reason, acumen, and wit.

The Parisian is of all men the most sophisticated. Paris is a city of realists, unaffected by sentimentality; a city of industry and thrift; a city of irony, but rarely of laughter, of wit but never or humour, of superficial intolerance and yet of people who regard the rest of the world with more or less amiable contempt.

Sometimes humour is all we have to say the things that can't be said.

One woman even disparaged Johnson for failing to include obscenities. "No, Madam, I hope I have not daubed my fingers," he replied, archly. "I find, however, that you have been looking for them.

Tuck holds out his hand. "By the way, I don't think we've been formally introduced. I'm Tuck. You know, rhymes with luck." "And fuck," Carlos adds. "Yep, that, too," Tuck says unfazed.

Alex probably brings his dates sharp knives as gifts, in case she'll need one when she's out on a date with him.

I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.