logo

Quotes About Wit

Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam engine in trousers.
~ Sydney Smith
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
~ Sydney Smith
He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop.
~ Sydney Smith
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
~ Sydney Smith
An unemployed court jester is nobody's fool.
~ Sylvia Fine Kaye
When a battle of wits begins between two people, the smarter of the two will concede knowing that the other person is unable to see any point of view other than their own.
~ T.R. Threston
U was zawsze ironia i ironia.
~ Tadeusz Konwicki
I'm not sarcastic. I'm just intelligent beyond your understanding.
~ Tags: growth
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
~ Tags: hunting
I'm allergic to stupidity. I break out in sarcasm.
~ Tags: hunting
I'm as pure as the driven slush.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
Jeg tror jammen at du endelig har beseiret meg, svarte han med et humoristisk glimt i øyet.
~ Tamara McKinley
Ah, dammit to hell and blast and nonspecific fornication" I said, when the rivet went shooting off into the grass again. "Is everyone OK with that?" "What's wrong with nonspecific fornication?" Abby demanded. "I don't like my fornication specific.
~ Tana French
I wouldn't say the carpet matches the curtains there," someone else says.
~ Tana French
grunt, and Lady Elinor smiled, confident that branding me a scholar would be enough to keep the gentleman
~ Tasha Alexander
Like many men of deep humor, he made the error of believing that every man was also endowed with it. So, when he sometimes ventured a wry or jocular remark to some acquaintance, to lift the sombreness of these days, the remark was repeated eagerly as an evidence of his hard-heartedness or frivolity or even foolishness.
~ Taylor Caldwell
A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy.
~ Beau Mirchoff
You sparkle with larceny.
~ Wilson Mizner
If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first.
~ Jimmy Nail
I don't like speaking publicly when I don't have to be funny.
~ Chelsea Handler
I have an aversion to comedy where everybody speaks in punchlines.
~ Bobcat Goldthwait
I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.
~ Lauren Hutton
Paul Rudd has a very specific brand of humor.
~ Michael Pena
I like comedy that's very specific and isn't afraid to lose people through its specificity.
~ Josh Gondelman