Quotes About Wit

A pun is its own reword.

The ability to laugh at yourself is a sign of higher intelligence.

At another time, on receiving a notification of the decease of a gentleman of the country-side, wherein not only the dignities of the dead man, but also the feudal and noble qualifications of all his relatives, spread over an entire page: What a stout back Death has! he exclaimed. What a strange burden of titles is cheerfully imposed on him, and how much wit must men have, in order thus to press the tomb into the service of vanity!

Far be it from me to insult the pun! I honor it in proportion to its merits; nothing more. All the most august, the most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of humanity, have made puns.

Monsieur, retorted Gavroche, perhaps you were a man of wit yesterday, but you have degenerated this morning.

Come si chiamano i vostri due amici? – Pietro il Grassatore e Battista Gabbagonzi. – Uhm! - fe' l'arcidiacono; - son nomi che si addicono a un'opera buona come una bombarda ad un altar maggiore.

The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

Wasnt it Startre who said hell was eternity spent in a room with your friends?

Not bad. Have you been eating bunnies?

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

He must be a dull Fellow indeed, whom neither Love, Malice, nor Necessity, can inspire with Wit.

Banter is often a proof of want of intelligence.

A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.

Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

Jael returned the lazy smile. "You're not my type." "Well, you're not anybody's type," said Hazael. "No, wait. I take it back. My sword says she'd like to know you better.

Well," Loraz said, her voice as dry as the rest of her was not. "At least you still have clothes on.

A pun is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Look, did you ask me to come all the way uptown just so you could stare at me like I was something in a petri dish? Next time I'll send you a photo." "And I'll frame it and put it on my nightstand," said Jace.

Medium clever," Simon acknowledged. "Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean's Eleven and those MythBusters guys, but, you know, better-looking." "I'm always so glad I have no idea what you're vacantly chattering about," said Jace. "It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.

You look lousy,' he said. Jace blinked. 'Seems an odd time to start an insult contest, but if you insist, I could probably think up something good.' 'No I mean it. You don't look good.' 'This is from a guy ho has all the sex appeal of a penguin. Look, I realize you may be jealous that the good Lord didn't deal you the same chiseled hand he dealt me, but that's no reason to-' 'I am not trying to insult you.' Simon snapped.