Quotes About Wit

It's funny, ma'am, how sometimes you're so sarcastic but it doesn't sting. Because of my dimples. Dimples are a get-out-of-jail-free card

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid

I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.

Good comedy is ageless.

My only agenda is trying to make you laugh and say something smart.

I can see humor in almost anything.

I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing. We had to amuse ourselves, so we had to become amusing.

I always say what I think to be amusing.

I'm really great at making terrible analogies.

Louie Anderson thinks my thing is the absurdness of reality. That's what we do on 'Portlandia' all the time. I try to bring that absurdness of reality to everything.

You can joke about anything. It just depends on your angle and the way you go about it.

Why do I want to annoy people? Because annoying people is funny.

I'd rather take the mick out of myself before anyone else does. I know they'll do it, so I'd rather get in there first!

People who take themselves too seriously, who can't see anything else, are usually funny.

Every compartment in his brain which he had thought to find so full of wit was bolted fast; he grew positively stupid.

There is no amusement except in the lumbering diligences of France, that gabbling and indiscreet country, where every one is in a hurry to laugh and show his wit, and where jest and epigram enliven all things, even the poverty of the lower classes and the weightier cares of the solid bourgeois. In a coach there is no police to check tongues, and legislative assemblies have set the fashion of public discussion.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

This coffee plunges into the stomach...the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop...the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp-shooters.

He who trains his tongue to quote the learned sages will be known, far and wide, as a smart-ass.

What do you mean, funny? Funny peculiar or funny ha-ha?

Funny-peculiar or funny-ha-ha

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.