Quotes About Wit

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

I knew I was drunk. I felt sophisticated and couldn't pronounce it.

Pm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.

Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low.

Humor is my sword and my shield. It protects me. You can open a door with humor and drive a truck right through.

Now when I bore people at a party, they think it's their fault.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark.

A comedian is a fellow who finds other comedians too humorous to mention.

You encourage a comic man too much, and he gets silly.

You can pretend to be serious, but you can't pretend to be witty.

Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet.

The best comedy is truthful. So if you say something in a way that is amusing, but is rooted in truth, you can get away with it.

I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.

I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them what's really going on the world. All I'm trying to do is think of stuff that's funny, just like when I'm kidding around with my friends.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.

Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are.

Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.

Someone asked why I invited Jon Stewart to be the first guest on the 'Journal''s premiere in 2007. 'Because Mark Twain isn't available,' I answered. I was serious.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice.