Quotes About Wit

France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

I'd love to do a comedy - something where a character has to use humor to navigate the absurdities of life.

Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it.

I am not a genius. But I am nerdy.

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

Never forget your sense of humour.

Whatever I did, I always gravitated toward trying to be funny. If I was with friends, we were joking around. If I wrote for the newspaper, it would be a humor column. If I acted, I wanted to do comedy.

My dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good.

Any comic is a very good actor. Look at Don Rickles. He is saying the same joke every night for 20 years and making it look like he just thought of it.

I as an individual can always take a joke on me, big time, there's no doubt on that.

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.

She wanted to be given a funny script so that she could make it funnier.

Now if we're finished jousting over sex- Darling,I haven't even picked up my lance. That's a very weak double entendre. She had him there. It's early.why don't you tell me why i'm having breakfast with you. I was up all night. The comment that occurred to him was not only weak,but crude.He let it pass.

Well, Ms. Fontaine, you look damn good for a dead woman. Her response was to narrow her eyes, arch a brow. If that's some sort of cop humor, I'm afraid you'll have to translate.

If you were cheap we'd be having sex now, soup later. 'That's supposed to be funny. It is, but only a little.

Irish. I should have known it. Such a gift of gab you've got, and all the charm in the world.

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

So, Marla, how do you like them apples?

Never underestimate the power of a bad joke, and better yet one that pokes fun at yourself.

But if it failed to show itself she would not grieve too deeply, for fear that the mending of broken hearts be a puzzle neither wit nor time had the skill to solve.

I'm happy to scrap with you, Macey darling, but we might do a little too much damage in this small space.

Wow!" Dutch exclaimed as he took a gander at me. "You are a beautiful woman, Abby." "And you have excellent taste!" I deadpanned. I'd waited for years to say that line.

The story ends with a crack the actor Hans Conreid made on seeing my two hundred black and white pots. Said Hans, You're one actor no one will ever be able to say he hasn't got a pot to... End quote.