Quotes About Wit

Chess is a thinking person's game. But you don't have to be smart to know what's funny! Lots of check, mate!

My go-to line when it's the resume game is that I'm either Chris Evans or Ryan Reynolds.

Chris Rock is a very funny man.

A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

I'm kind of under the radar. Not a lot of people notice me. Which is surprising, because I'm so sexy. They're probably intimidated by my sexiness and crushability.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

Anybody ever tell you you're a cute little trick?

Go ahead and faint, I said. I'll catch you on the first bounce.

One moment, please. Whom did you wish to see?" Degarmo spun on his heel and looked at me wonderingly. "Did he say 'whom'?" "Yeah, but don't hit him," I said. "There is such a word." Degarmo licked his lips. "I knew there was," he said. "I often wondered where they kept it.

A half smart guy, she said with a tired sniff. That's all I ever draw. Never once a guy that's smart all the way around the course. Never once.

Diálogo cínico não é humor espirituoso.

I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.

If to raise malicious smiles at the infirmities or misfortunes of those who have never injured us be the province of wit or humour, Heaven grant me a double portion of dullness.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

Sarcasm is irony which has lost its soul

If you turned your back on irony, it curdled into sarcasm. And what good was it then? Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul.

pustular berk with the charisma of a plimsole

Sybil, vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

Irony, when delivered cold and shaved very, very fine, could sound like amusement.

He wasn't at all what she expected. No: this wasn't true. He was everything she'd expected from everything she'd read about him—he was irritating, frivolous, arrogant, disconcertingly charming. It was just that she would not have suspected his intelligence had depth, that his wit was in part defense, that his charm was a result of, in part, startlingly acute perception and even…grace.

She charmed and sparkled and said witty things, but she knew very well she was being charming and sparkling and witty while she was doing it, which somehow felt wrong.

Does she make you laugh?" He thought about this. "She laughs a good deal when I'm about," he allowed. Did Colin Eversea really want to be laughed at rather than with his entire life? He was the most maddening person she'd ever met, but his humor contained angles; he used it both to deflect and persuade. And if one could see around it, one would see into vulnerability.