Quotes About Wit

I have been assaulted by cleverness on all fronts.

New Rule: Colin Firth has to admit that he's not a human being but a robot designed by women as the perfect man. He's handsome, charming, witty, he's got that accent and a gay best friend...the only way he could be any better is if he ejaculated Häagen-Dazs.

Mohamed Ali also had a way with words, but it helped enormously that he could also punch guys in the face.

definition of sarcasm is "a cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound

Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN

Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table. Mom: CALVIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COFFEE TABLE?!? Calvin: Is this some sort of trick question, or what?

Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a 'possum stuck in your collar?

For I, too, am a serious student of cartoons.

I know that humour can take on anything.

Don't say 'Horse shite,' Amelia-Rose whispered, drawing even with him. What should I call it, then, digested equine grass lumps?

Is he daft? Bond queried. His brain is so advanced, it stumbles over mediocrity.

You're all tight and toned from Marathon Man Cross over there." Gideon looked up from his phone. "Come again?" "That's what I just said, dude," Cary drawled, winking at me. "In so many words.

Though it's quite clear all your beauty, all your wit, is a gift, my dear, from me.

if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

Why, I'm just as true and honest as dirt. And I'm even more charming than dirt.

I would apologize for my rudeness, if I had any manners. Happily, I don't.

If he were any stiffer, Alanna thought wryly, I'd paint a design on him and use him for a shield.

Your ma was a leech with bad teeth," she taunted. Onua laughed in spite of herself. "Your da was a peahen. I know chickens with more brains than you!

unfortunately, I am incapable of thinking up perfectly biting, split-second retorts, in any language. The French even have a word for this: l'esprit de l'escalier; staircase wit, something you only think of on the way out.

From what I hear, he is a young man of sparkling if not always kindly wit.

Mevary, who was in many ways a fool had still the quick immediate wit of those incapable of prolonged deduction.

I'm quaking in my boots," he deadpanned.

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