Quotes About Wit

Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.

I don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony. There's some awful statistic about only 20 per cent of Americans being able to understand irony.

My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

I always enjoy conversation more if there is some substance to it - which is a just incredibly hilarious thing for me to say because for many, many years I was the guy whose only contribution to any conversation was, 'There was a funny 'Simpson's' joke about that.'

I learned that you don't have to be all over the place, that you can be subtle and you can say what you say. The words that you put together can be just as hilarious as falling all over the place or doing something.

The Marx Brothers isn't subtle, and that's hilarious.

I love comedies, both broad and subtle.

I think humor and protest can be subtle, instead of loud and going to the level of violence.

I like very dry humor. I don't like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are nonchalant. I like characters that are sort of monotone and based in dark comedy.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.

I don't say my golf game is bad, but if I grew tomatoes they'd come up sliced

I will find humor in my everyday life by looking for people I can laugh at

A true adventurer needs a keen wit, a stout heart, and a strong bladder. Though luck can stand in for the wit and the heart, but I have never yet found a good substitute for the bladder.

I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.

It's hard to be bored when you're as stupid as a line.

Ah Mozart He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.

Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?

I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.

You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.