Quotes About Wit

How clever of you, sir, to be rich rather than smart.

But, as Andy pointed out, if being a smart-arse was an offence, the Laundry would not exist in the first place.

The jokes. The jokes. The fucking endless jokes.

I thought maybe she was trying to be funny but then realized this was impossible to do without a sense of humor.

Hilarious, insightful, and smart. A must-read for anyone who wears clothes.

So you're a comedian, he said. Tell me something funny. Okay. The great thing about being an alcoholic is that when you're bored at a party, you can leave without saying good-bye, and people just think you blacked out. Are you an alcoholic? he asked me. That's not really the point, I responded. And I don't like the word 'alcoholic.' I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker.

If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point.

I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.

Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

Humor is my default mode.

I'm not too modest of a person. I've got a pretty blue sense of humor.

Oh, I like Roger Moore - he's cheeky.

The more real it is, the funnier it is. The more awkward it is, the more people are stumbly, the funnier it is. I like a sharp joke, but it has to say something that someone would actually say.

I'm really sarcastic. Not Morgan Webb sarcastic. She's dry, 100%. I'm different from her.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

The most difficult thing is to make people laugh. It is easy to make them cry.

Bacon flinched, then with hollow flippancy quoted the Book of Judges: "With the jawbone of an ass you have slain your thousands.

You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.

So you think that you're a failure, do ya? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you have any sense at all, we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail! But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.

If he weren't a stick his own self, I'd say he had a stick up his butt.

Do not dabble in paradox, Edward, it puts you in danger of fortuitous wit.

Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that what the virtue of wit contained was the vice of scorn.

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.