Quotes About Wit

The younger brother hath the more wit.

Coquetry, with all its pranks and teasings, makes the spice to your dinner — the mulled wine to your supper.

Clarissa: Talbot, it is so delightful to have you back again. I shall now have such charming evenings with you at chess. Talbot: At what? Clarissa: Chess — the king of games. Talbot: Do you call it a game? Ha! ha! No, thankee; life's too short for chess.

Man 1: Where are you from? Man 2: From a place where we do not end sentences with prepositions. Man 1: Okay, where are you from, jackass?

Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?

He who has provoked the lash of wit cannot complain that he smarts from it.

My mum and dad are both really funny. My granddad's really funny. My uncle's really funny. Everyone's really funny. You have to be quick; otherwise, you get roasted. Everyone takes the piss quite a lot. You have to be really sharp.

If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't.

That's how to make a stand-up comedian: You take a person who is uncomfortable and try to squirrel their way out of it through humor.

I love comedy. It's something that I think Marvel does so well, and it's one of the reasons I love Marvel so much is the quips that you get: that kind of underlying everything and cutting through the very heavy emotional stuff.

My works were not - and they still aren't - single panel gags with a punch line underneath them. I like a lot of those cartoons; I just don't draw them.

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

What I've understood is that to be funny is not my job. To see funny is my job.

An unemployed court jester is nobody's fool.

There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context. If you translated something into French and then had it translated back into English by somebody who didn't know the original, you'd lose what was funny.

If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.

People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other's chops, and that's not what women's comedy is.

You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen, and that's not saying much for you

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

I'm not a person who can spontaneously say funny things.