Quotes About Wit

I think I have got a very good sense of humour; other people don't, but I do. I also laugh at my own jokes.

To deliver something deadpan is very difficult; I don't think people know how hard those jokes are.

I always like to make some jokes, sometimes.

We only ever write jokes that amuse us.

Knowing what jokes will work is second nature; you just feel it.

I do like rude jokes. They're men jokes.

Rob and I both have this strange sense of comedy which always involves us being the butt of our own jokes.

I'm sure there are comedians who make jokes about me, but say something funny, not mean.

I don't have jokes that I can't defend.

I'm one of the people who actually laughs at everyone else's jokes!

I think I'd make a good James Bond... I'm joking.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

What things have we seenDone at the Mermaid! heard words that have beenSo nimble, and so full of subtle flame,As if that everyone from whence they came,Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,And resolv'd to live a fool, the restOf his dull life.

Hayward Christian Beach was heard to inquire; "How many knuckles appear on a 'knucklehead'?

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?

What's the odd one out between an egg, a drum, and a potato?' Ronan shook his head, mystified. 'You can beat an egg. You can beat a drum. But you can't beat a potato. D'you get it, do you?

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.