Quotes About Wit

What? It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's worse.

I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

It's a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it.

You wanna have laughs? Do what I do. When I go through a tollbooth, I keep going. I tell the guy, The car behind me is paying for two.

The gap between bat and pad is so much that I would have driven a car through it... !!

Certainly the psychological work done by wit and humor is heavily overdetermined. It may control, or salute, the sudden release of tension. It may express anxiety or alleviate it; bravado joking is a whistling past the graveyard of physical fear or social uneasiness. Humor may serve as a salutary act of regression — an agreeable holiday from frowning responsibility, a temporary retreat from earnestness that circumvents the punitive superego humans carry about with themselves.

At 63, he's witty, and smart, and he'll make fun of himself and his wife and staff and other pols and the Trail, and he'll tease the press and give them shit in a way they don't ever mind because it's the sort of shit that makes you feel that here's this very cool, important guy who's noticing you and liking you enough to give you shit.

Did you take lessons in stupidity, or does it come naturally?

No funny stuff in here tonight, you understand?" Dash said, "I assure you I could not contemplate any of your so-called funny stuff seeing as how I have no idea why I'm even here." Mark scoffed. "You bookish little pervert." "Thank you, sir!" Dash said brightly.

El humor es tu brújula y tu escudo. Puedes afilarlo para convertirlo en un arma o arrancarle hebras para tejerte una colcha mullida. No se puede subsistir a base de humor, pero sin él, tampoco.

All the quips in the world couldn't prevent Oscar Wilde from becoming a lovesick fool.

Her sense of humor is indistinguishable from her sense of self.

I knew she didn't suffer fools gladly, but she'd gladly make a fool suffer.

I was a smart-ass, born and raised. This had been my curse and would continue to be so.

I know it sounds calculating, but if you're not cute, you might as well be clever.

Did you just tell that lady you're a doctor?" Amy would ask. "A little," I'd say.

That said, I admire people who are curious and open their minds to new possibilities, especially after a certain age. You have to draw the line somewhere, though, and with me it's my anus.

While each of us thought, separately, Amy brought up Fran Lebowitz. Someone asked her what her favorite animal is and she answered, 'Steak.' Isn't that perfect?

if you're not cute, you might as well be clever.

If he thinks we're bad, he should spend more time with Lisa." "That's true," I agreed. "Lisa's the master. I left her at a Starbucks for ninety seconds last year, and when I returned the woman behind the counter was saying to her, 'My gynecologist told me that exact same thing.

If you're not cute, at least be clever.

A fool who knew a little was far more dangerous than someone who at least had the wit to admit he knew nothing.

You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.

You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next. He'll also cut you some slack if you're astonishingly stupid in an amusing fashion. Granny claimed that this explains why uncountable millions of breathtakingly stupid people get along just fine in life.