Quotes About Wit

You're stunning. And charming. Who needs to flirt when they're as smart as you.

He was more of a cut-a-wisebrack-and-run-for-cover kind of guy.

You mean, you think he's hotter than a billy goat with a blowtorch?" Hazel asked.

Do not entertain the fool unless you want the joke to be on you..

No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, all flock to their aid.

A man may love a paradox without either losing his wit or his honesty.

Good for you Woods. You're not as dumb as you look. Come to think of it, no one's as dumb as you look.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

I went up to a girl in a bar once and asked her where she was from. I guess she wasn't interested, because she said, "Mars." So I asked, "You need a ride home?"

I'll pun him so many puns that even his arrogance will finally be expunged.

Bobby Heenan was as quick-witted off the cameras as he was on the camera and just as funny. A great guy and I just thought the world of him as a person.

Yes, well, you are quite camp, so I guess that he could see the point of you.

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

You look at Richard Pryor and Robert Klein and George Carlin and Richard Lewis - those guys were so smart, they were the thinking-man stand-ups.

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.

Prince Charles was a lot wittier than I thought he'd be, and passionate about the environment and architecture.

If you manage to joke around and charm people, it means that from inside, you are very serious.

I am flippant. That's one of my charms.

There's no such thing as a cheap laugh.

I think I can be quite cheeky at times.

If someone is being very cheeky, it can be quite fun to deal with that situation.

I do have the cheesiest of cheesy chat-up lines used on me.

A friend of mine is a chef in Bali, and another friend said, 'God, he's like Brad Pitt,' and I said, 'Yeah, I think he's more like arm Pitt,' 'cause, you know, 'Brad Pitt' would be a bit of an overstatement.