Quotes About Wit

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

That there are a hundred with wit for one with understanding is a true proposition with which many witless Dummkopf consoles himself.The Dummkopf should also reflect that there also a hundred possessing neither wit nor understanding for every man possessing wit .

No trates de mostrarte excesivamente ingenioso para evitar que un hombre por naturaleza ingenioso perciba por casualidad que en realidad eres exactamente como quisieras que él fuera.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity.

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.

And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.

Sharp! yes, her tongue is like a new-set razor. She's quite original in her talk too; one of those untaught wits that help to stock a country with proverbs. I told you that capital thing I heard her say about Craig—that he was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. Now that's an Æsop's fable in a sentence.

Nature well drawn, and wit, must now give place To gaudy nonsense and to dull grimace: Nor is it strange that you should like so much That kind of wit, for most of yours is such.

Sit on him? What kind of battle strategy is that?

You make me want to stab you." "I have that effect on many people." "How is it you're still alive?" "I'm hard to kill.

Oh wow, now that was a clever comeback. He'd surely drop to his knees and bow before my intellectual brilliance.

You're an excellent analyst. Not everyone is born with the gift of snappy comeback.

I could do the punching. Punching was easy. It was the clever banter and dealing in convoluted half-truths and almost-lies that made me want to jump out of my skin.

But he's joking, he doesn't mean it. When Lucas makes a joke he means it.

and he wreaked havoc among the buttered toast as he said it.

I can't stay friends with anyone who doesn't have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it right into the kitchen, too. They have a zest for life; the excitement of living. All of the great eaters I've known are also men of great wit.

Some guy hit my fender the other day, and I said unto him, "Be fruitful, and multiply." But not in those words.

If you think a lot of the comments made tonight are not funny, but are immature and tasteless, that's only because the sense of humor is the first thing to go.

There was a small boy of Quebec Who was buried in snow to the neck: When they said 'Are you friz?' He replied 'Yes, I is - But we don't call this cold in Quebec!'

He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.