Quotes About Wit

An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.

Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.

My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs do from the cobblestones.

jokes are used to hide the truth!

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.

Laughter is sort of a natural truth detector. If you laugh at something, it's probably because there was some truth in it.

Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.

A lot of comics just joke around, but it's just as important to get the truth out there.

In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.

In jest, there is truth.

Sarcasm is the new staircase to stardom.

Remember, whoever is funny is king.

Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.

Humor is the truth wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.

They are funny, too. And not always intentionally, either, which as far as I am concerned is the very best kind of funny.

Like all of his friends, he considered it a compliment when somebody called him a wiseass.

This is a Southern gift, isn't it - tremendous self-regard diluted with humor and modesty. That's what they mean by Southern charm, right?

Hobhouse introduced Appleby. Sir David, without budging, extruded so pungent a benevolence that the effect was rather that of coming upn a skunk unawares.

He laughed, but in the way people do who want to prove they get the joke. The Dutch do this a lot. They appear to live in terror of being mistaken for Germans, and to compensate by finding a funny side to life where none exists. Tell a Dutchman that your dog just died, and he will pretend that you have just made some impossibly witty remark.

A joke is a witticism or play on words that's meant to be funny. I say 'meant to be' because most jokes aren't funny. They range between mildly amusing and grimace-inducingly annoying.