Quotes About Wit

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Clever people are entertaining and stupid ones give me such a pleasant sense of superiority.

We believe in healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if needs be. Needs be.

Anyhow, the hole in the doughnut is at least digestible.

Puck Mulligan footed featly, trilling: I HARDLY HEAR THE PURLIEU CRY OR A TOMMY TALK AS I PASS ONE BY BEFORE MY THOUGHTS BEGIN TO RUN ON F. M'CURDY ATKINSON, THE SAME THAT HAD THE WOODEN LEG AND THAT FILIBUSTERING FILIBEG THAT NEVER DARED TO SLAKE HIS DROUTH, MAGEE THAT HAD THE CHINLESS MOUTH. BEING AFRAID TO MARRY ON EARTH THEY MASTURBATED FOR ALL THEY WERE WORTH. Jest on. Know thyself.

When she had gone he said, laughing: —We call it D. B. C. because they have damn bad cakes. O, but you missed Dedalus on Hamlet. Haines opened his newbought book. —I'm sorry, he said. Shakespeare is the happy huntingground. of all minds that have lost their balance.

Hastan the vista! Or in alleman: Suck at! — Suck it yourself, sugarstick!

Are you a strict t.t.? says Joe. —Not taking anything between drinks, says I.

The mockery of it! he said gaily

You are far too stolid and unimaginative, Watson, to invent a tale like that.

Sleep well, gentlemen, for tomorrow we become connoisseurs of shite.

Never underestimate the power of funny, it moves mountains.

Walking over to Iggy, he poked him with his shoe. Does anysing on you vork properly? Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. Well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.

He's also possibly the funniest person I've ever met. He's even funnier than that sit-down/stand-up comedian kid I heard about, Jamie Grimm.

Ha!" I said. "Ha, ha, ha." Yeah, for a word guy, I sometimes run out of them.

one of his clamps, which are supposed to be like hands. "Was that a joke? If so

you niggers, is when you set in to tryin' to think," said Leander Purneau. He spoke in a friendly, jokey

his eyes sarcastically. "Actually, my

The unique selling price (USP) of 'Sat Shri Akaal England' is its jokes and punches that come so naturally that we didn't have to put in additional effort.

I try not to write jokes that are mean. I try my best to write jokes that are pretty universal and jokes that don't attack anyone. I know I often fall short of that and end up taking unfair swipes at people, but I try not to.

I had a certificate that said, 'Doctor of Mixology, Harvard University,' that I actually got from Harvard University. A friend of mine was a research assistant over there and it was one of those student or university perks and she brought me in on that. So I am a doctorate from Harvard and it only took me one afternoon.

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.