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Quotes About Wit

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
~ George Bernard Shaw
When a ham actor told George Jessel "I'm a sensation at the Roxy. Last night I had the audience glued to their seats," Jessel snapped, "Wonderful! How clever of you to think of it."
~ Bennett Cerf, c.1950
Cat: a-cute-puncturist.
~ Internet meme
She doesn't like you, McNab. "I knoooow. I find that really attractive in a woman.
~ J.D. Robb
Please, Eve, these public displays of affection must stop. I have a reputation." "Keep it up, ace, and I'll give you a public display of affection that'll have you limping for a week." "Now I'm excited.
~ J.D. Robb
Peabody:] Bite me. Though Eve managed to swallow a chuckle at her aide's use of her own standard response to annoyances, she didn't quite make it over McNab's cheerful, Where?
~ J.D. Robb
I speak sarcasm fluently.
~ J.D. Robb
I got a weakness for the sizzle, and the smarts. I don't care what chromosomes somebody's got, I just go for sizzle or smarts. Somebody's got both? I'm a goner.
~ J.D. Robb
Comes off like she's got the mental capacity of broccoli
~ J.D. Robb
Peabody, am I an ass-kicker? Are you asking to see my scars, or is that a trick question? Shut up, Peabody
~ J.D. Robb
Bella: Then why are you wearing that bandage like a sash? Phury: It makes my ass look smaller.
~ J.R. Ward
The guy stroked his goatee. What do you call twenty guys watching the world series? The New York Yankees, Butch replied.
~ J.R. Ward
Besides, you don't look a thing like him. I mean… hello? You're this beefy Irish white boy. He's like… bus exhaust or some shit.
~ J.R. Ward
Besides, you don't look a thing like him. I mean…hello? You're this beefy Irish white boy. He's like…bus exhaust or some shit.
~ J.R. Ward
The beautiful thing about comedy in the U.K. is that it has a clever twist to it, and when you really break it down, the joke isn't filthy at all: it's clever.
~ Katherine Ryan
On Twitter, I just want to make you laugh at all costs.
~ Rob Delaney
I still love a well-crafted joke. Twitter's been great for that.
~ Kyle Kinane
Once you get my snark going, I'll just start snarking it up all over Twitter.
~ Ato Essandoh
I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.
~ David Niven
Jesse Tyler Ferguson is probably one of the funniest people I've ever met in my life. Everything the kid does is funny. I think he tunes his life to being funny.
~ Jesse L. Martin
I don't have a type. I am more of a sapiosexual person. The girl has to be intelligent.
~ Siddharth Shukla
I don't really have a type. I don't want to be a cliche. But personality is a big thing for me. You can find cute guys all over. But he's got to have some sort of sense of humor, which is so hard to find in a guy. He's got to be a bit smart.
~ Zara Larsson
I'm a very observational type of comedian that points out everyday absurdities.
~ Sebastian Maniscalco
I'm not the type of guy who's funny in the room. I'm the guy who's funny late at night on a computer, trying to construct jokes.
~ Scott Aukerman