Quotes About Wit

I know Toby Jones very well, we've done yoga together in the past and get on very well. He's a fantastic actor, but also extremely good company, very witty, and smart.

Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way.

Believe it or not, I make myself laugh. Sometimes when I have thoughts or say some things that are funny, it just makes me laugh, and I don't mind laughing at it before you guys do.

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.

Corey Graves - he's thrown jabs at me; I've thrown jabs back, you know? And you know, the thing is, Corey Graves, of course, yeah, he's a college educated young man. His vernacular is a little different than mine.

I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them.

I am an old comic trapped in young comic's body.

A few things make a person stylish: honesty, imagination with a sprinkling of humour. I still keep an eye on trends, but I don't follow them any more.

Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.

Man's wisdom detracts from the glory of God, who is more honoured by the simplicity of the gospel, than luxuriance of wit.

Hey yogurt, if you're so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera?

Older British observers complained, "The trouble with you Yanks is that you are overpaid, oversexed, and over here." (To which the Yanks would reply, "The trouble with you Limeys is that you are underpaid, undersexed, and under Eisenhower.")

May you always have ale enough to wet your tongues, wit enough to know friend from foe, and strength enough for every fight.

But all seriousness aside

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

If you're trying to scare me," I said, "it's working." "I can do a great deal more than scare you." Where do they get this stuff? "Um, if I thought all you could do was scare me, you couldn't scare me, if you see what I mean." "We'll see how funny you are in a little while." I was mildly curious about that myself.

it is not the lack of wit or intellect that shallow men crave [in women], it is lack of personality; they desire a woman who will exist only as a shadow to themselves, because this gives them the illusion that they have some importance, that they are more than cattle.

Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny, not funny as crude slapstick.

The word 'comedy' implies slapstick.

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

I'm interested in the things that might seem slight or amusing but which I feel have a kind of profundity.

The more cerebral, slightly darker comedy stuff is where I love to live.