Quotes About Wit

I've always been fascinated by Oscar Wilde.

I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living.

The other day I... uh, no, that wasn't me.

Being an outsider helps breed comedy.

It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.

Comedy is great because there's no overhead.

interviewing that people said he could make a stump confess to saying "timber.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick.

Sometimes I'm so clever that I don't understand a single word of what I'm saying.

There are no stupid questions except What's my name again?

Tommy If I wanted a kiss I'd call your mother.

Crees que eres muy pillo pero has perdido el librillo. ¿Estará hecho picadillo? ¿O lo tendrá un trastolillo?

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.

He'd been about to make a joke, but he kept it to himself.

I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf.

All right, I'll wait another two thousand years to make jokes about my evilness.

Want me to drop a mango on her?" Sundew offered. "You have a MANGO?" Swordtail asked indignantly. "No, you acorn. It's a metaphorical mango." "I don't see how metaphorical mangoes are going to do us any good," Swordtail muttered.