Quotes About Wit

That's true, because I would have ripped off your tail and beaten you with it first," Winter said. "Nice," Qibli said from the shore. "Not the face this time. Very creative.

ability to come up with witty rejoinders whenever someone insulted her.

you're a handsome idiot," she said affectionately. "And I'll tell you later.

And whatever that other one can do." "Make bananas," Qibli filled in. "Absolutely terrifying. Run for your life.

NightWings will try to counter your sarcasm with more sarcasm, as though every conversation is a competition to see whose wit is more biting. No one ever stops to acknowledge that someone else was funny.

He that would make a pun would pick a pocket.

He derives a greater pleasure from a smaller stream of wit than any man I have ever known.

The saddest task for the ironist is having to tell the listener that it's a joke, because of course it is never a joke.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.

Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.

With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.

Laugh, if thou art wise.

My brothers are both 6 ft. 5 in., and if you have younger brothers who are bigger than you then you have to learn the ancient martial art of sarcasm.

Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.

With such a small brain, I don't know how you made it this far.