Quotes About Wit

I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.

When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.

you made a point of hanging out exclusively with people who had the wit to see and to understand that objective reality, you didn't have to waste a lot of time talking.

You're just clever enough to be stupider than if you weren't clever at all

But most of them must have the wit to understand that phenomena like these are maddeningly unstable, and that there's no telling what weird, seemingly inconsequential event might cause the system to shift into a radically different configuration.

And she was interesting, an odd confusion of wit and intense earnestness; a vivid and remarkable person.

talented wisecracker.…

They were freer than their forefathers in dress and living, and spent more in other kinds of excesses, consuming their time and money in idleness, gaming, and women; their chief aim was to appear well dressed and to speak with wit and acuteness, whilst he who could wound others the most cleverly was thought the wisest.

more time she'd spent with him, the more convinced she became that he was by far the sexiest guy she'd ever met. Who else did she know who could work with his hands the way he did? Who could make her laugh? Who was smart and charming, self-reliant and tender?

My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.

When one woman found out I had multiple sclerosis, she said to me, 'My heart bleeds for you.' I said to her, 'Well, my heart bleeds for you, because you're an idiot.'

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.

I'm not the comic innovator that Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy are. I can't just come out with an incredible line.

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.

I think through humor you can get a point across better than through just a dramatic narrative.

I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.

Everyone who has ever met me for at least five minutes knows I'm a really funny person. I love to laugh and to make people laugh, so writing comedy comes naturally to me.

He imagines himself a wit, but he's only half that.

If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.

Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.

An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence

Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.

Billy Wilder, Lenny Bruce, Saul