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Quotes About Wit

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
~ Sir Walter Besant
I was glib, even witty, or at least that's how I imagined myself.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you.
~ Judith Viorst
I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.
~ Alton Brown
The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
~ Edward Abbey
I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.
~ Elizabeth Banks
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
~ Emanuel Celler
When it comes to making love, I may not be the best, but I'm damn gouda.
~ Ryan Stiles
I love comedy. If I could be a comedian - well, I probably would not take that job because it seems really hard, but I wish I could be.
~ Taylor Momsen
If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.
~ William Shakespeare
I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy.
~ Michael Dorn
I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.
~ Renata Adler
I love being funny and talking with fellas.
~ Eddie Jemison
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
~ Denis Diderot
I love John Madden, because he makes me feel smart.
~ Frank Caliendo
I'd love to ask how old you are, but unfortunately I know you can't count that high.
~ Russell Lynes
William Makepeace Thackeray
~ Humor is wit and love.
Making love to your wife is like shooting at sitting ducks.
~ Groucho Marx
I think I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, "did she say that out loud?" kind of humor.
~ Victoria Chang
I love anyone who surprises me and makes me laugh.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
The French are never serious. They juggle with principles, make fun of difficulties and have been walking the tightrope of virtuosity for ten centuries. A singular nation, you know.
~ Maurice Dekobra
He was so near the sacred and fearful grail of black manhood that any man of color who faced the threat of life with courage, and intellect, and wit, was his hero.
~ Maya Angelou
listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations. When
~ Maya Angelou
Bite me, Harry Potter.
~ Meg Cabot