Quotes About Wit

Emerson:bite me Whitne:you wish

Paul: You know what you sound like? A jealous girl friend. Suze: And how are things on Planet You Wish?

I'm going to be just as nasty as you are—but I'm going to do it with more style.

I swear to you, even if he was shaved bald he'd have more hair than wits.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune; and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it. —Nathan Mayer Rothschild

I love comedy. I love the absurdity of it. I love the kind of intelligence that's required to be dumb in comedy.

I never sat down and said, you know, what the world needs is a good, sick cartoonist.

I have some sarcastic sides of me.

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

I'd love to be able to do a comedy like 'Dr. Strangelove.' I'm not a very serious person. Really, I'm very silly.

Things I say are sometimes silly.

I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.

There's a difference between delivering real funny and just silly funny.

I'm not saying that comedy has to be a certain thing - I'm not trying to define comedy, where it's like, it can only be silly things. But I think part of what makes a comedy is that at least part of the mantra of the show is trying to make people laugh.

I say some silly things now and again.

Me and the Rock do look a lot alike, and we're a similar build - that was a joke, by the way.

Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

Sarcasm is like Jell-O. It's always the right time and there's always room.

You were always cheerful - tho' often left to your own devices. You were hardly ever out of temper - tho' often severely provoked. Your every speech was remarkable for its wit and genius - tho' you got no credit for it and almost always received a flat contradiction.

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

A good sense of humor will get you everywhere.

You're kind of a smart ass when you're not flat on your face.

Well, Hodge, wasn't the brightest candle on the birthday cake.

We had any number of clocks surrounding us, and every one of them at one time or another exhibited a lively sense of humor.