Quotes About Wit

Rhetoric is the art of influence, friendship, and eloquence, of ready wit and irrefutable logic. And it harnesses the most powerful of social forces, argument.

Just bring your wits. Sometimes that's the most effective weapon any of us has.

This is the city of disguises. What you are one day will not constrain you on the next. You may explore yourself freely and, if you have wit or wealth, no one will stand in your way. This city was built on wit and wealth and we have a fondness for both, though they do not have to appear in tandem.

She was developing what Mom called a bit of a sarcastic streak.

You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me—and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely.

Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off.

It's so interesting to watch Ben Stiller work because he just knows what's funny.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.

Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented.

God created man, but I could do better.

I don't do chat-up lines. Girls often tell me I'm cheeky. Being cheeky seems to work OK for me.

I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

Comedy is one of my strengths.

It's a fun job, but it's stressful because you have to be funny. You have to have punch lines and captions. Be funny now! And if you're not inspired, they don't care - be funny now! They have to fill that hole the next day.

We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

I strive for honesty because I think that's where the funniest stuff comes from.

I like grown-up comedy, where it's about character and attitude and life as opposed to obvious gross-out and jokes.

Many comedians and comedy writers have shared the childhood experience of learning to joke to protect themselves from neighborhood bullies when challenge or physical defense were not among the sensible options.