Quotes About Wit

You're a man milliner, Poirot. I never notice what people have on." "You should join a nudist colony." As

My dear Boris, can you not take a joke?" "Was it a joke?

Does nothing frighten you, Anne Beddingfeld?" "Oh, yes," I said, with an assumption of coolness I was far from feeling. "Wasps, sarcastic women, very young men, cockroaches, and superior shop assistants.

I wouldn't like to deprive you of the pleasure of being clever at my expense!

I should hope so. But, my dear, I do beg of you to guard your tongue and be careful of what you say. These women are singularly deficient in humour, remember, and take everything seriously.

She adopted a lighter tone.

Come out with all the old inane cliches and curl a sardonic lip at them.

He used deliberation as others use quickness of repartee.

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

It's hard to force creativity and humor.

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

She loved sarcasm, especially from engineers.

Joking around is part of my personality, just who I am.

There are some extremely acceptable male comedians out there: Joel Osteen, Abraham Lincoln, the man who played Phil Spector in HBO's 'Phil Spector.' But even those guys, while insightful and amusing, aren't exactly funny.

Prince Philip was a funny man who liked to laugh and make others laugh.

A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

No pickup lines! They're the worst. But I love jokes.

Just be funny. Funny always goes over well, so try to think of something funny to break the ice rather than being weird or using pickup lines.

Without sounding pretentious, if you get the emotional truth right, then you're set. Then the funny stuff you can pile on as much or as little as you want.

We're more effective than birth control pills.

For me, the comedies that truly work are the ones that are grounded in some way. If it's all heightened, it's really hard. It's a little slippery. It's hard to get purchase on the side of the wall.

I wanted to be clever, but being funny came first. That's how you know someone is clever. They don't come out and tell you pi to 13 places - they tell you a joke.

A keen wit stabs harder than a finely honed argument.