Quotes About Wit

Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart. Show me the person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit

Henry Denton: You Brits really don't have a sense of humor do you? Elsie: We do if something's funny, sir.

Oh, we're playing nice now? Shall we have tea first? Brew up a nice pot of kiss-my-ass?

Magnanimous of you.' His mouth twitched. 'Mmm. Use more words like that, please. Schoolmistress words. Long, impressive ones.' He'd made the last three words sound like an innuendo.

The best jokes are uncalled-for.

Well, I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech.

With Irish drama, things are told with humor.

I am drawn to humorous art that is ironic.

A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

I'm not into cartoons. That's the irony of it.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

There are elements of irony in my work, of course.

I love irony.

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

Jane Austen is very amusing.

I wish I was as smart as Jeff Bezos. He's just a large-brained space alien.

Jerry Trainor is one of the funniest people on the planet.

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'

I like insult comics. Joan Rivers, Dame Edna, people like that.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

A joke's a very serious thing.