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Quotes About Wit

She gave me a hard look. No one likes a wiseass, Harry. Are you kidding? As long as the wiseass is talking to someone else , people love 'em.
~ Jim Butcher
You don't have to make fun of it. Actually I do, I said. I make fun of almost everything.
~ Jim Butcher
Butters, rumbled Skaldi Hair Ball. If he really had broken fingers, it didn't look like they were bothering him much. When are you going to get in this ring and train like a man? About five minutes after I get a functional lightsaber, Butters replied easily, much to Hair Ball's amusement.
~ Jim Butcher
Butters blinked at looked at Thomas. My God, he said. You've been shot. Thomas hooked a thumb at Butters. Check out Dr. Marcus Welby, MD, here. I'd have gone with Doogie Howser, maybe, I said. Split the difference at McCoy? Thomas asked. Perfect.
~ Jim Butcher
Your face looks like a sack of purple potatoes
~ Jim Butcher
Where is your unit? Murphy asked. I wiggled my eyebrows at her. Right where it's always been, dollface.
~ Jim Butcher
I've always admired your ability to make jokes when faced with adversity.
~ Jim Butcher
Thomas hooked a thumb at Butters. Check out Dr. Marcus Welby, MD, here. I'd have gone with Doogie Howser, maybe, I said. Split the difference at McCoy? Thomas asked? Perfect.
~ Jim Butcher
Does it hurt to be as suave as you, boss?" "It's agonizing." "Looks it.
~ Jim Butcher
You think you're funny." "Oh, I know I'm funny. Unappreciated, but funny.
~ Jim Butcher
You always a wiseass?" "No. Sometimes I'm asleep." He
~ Jim Butcher
Butters blinked and looked at Thomas. "My God," he said. "You've been shot." Thomas hooked a thumb at Butters. "Check out Dr. Marcus Welby, MD, here." "I'd have gone with Doogie Howser, maybe," I said. "Split the difference at McCoy?" Thomas asked. "Perfect." "You've been shot!" Butters repeated, exasperated.
~ Jim Butcher
Crap," I said. I'm quite eloquent in times of crisis
~ Jim Butcher
You always a wiseass?" "No. Sometimes I'm asleep.
~ Jim Butcher
Pussy," Murphy said. I blinked at her. She smirked. "Too good, couldn't resist.
~ Jim Butcher
You've played me at my own game, and ably. I thought you capable of nothing but overt action. Clearly I underestimated you." "Don't feel bad," I said. "I mean, I look so stupid.
~ Jim Butcher
What's up, boss?" "Evil's afoot." "Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now.
~ Jim Butcher
My double snorted. "That's good. That really is, the banter thing. I can't do the banter very well. Maybe that's why you're in charge. Of course, if I was in charge more often, you'd get laid a lot more—but no, that's not it, either.
~ Jim Butcher
There is never a need to outrun anything you can outwit.
~ Jim Davis
As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?
~ Jodi Picoult
When asked to contribute ten dollars to a lawyer's funeral I said: "Here's fifty. Bury five of them."
~ Melvin Helitzer
I got to work with Rachel Dratch, and she just had such a funny, roll-with-it attitude when she would approach the stage and could turn anything into a gem.
~ Unknown
I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.
~ John Zorn
If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.
~ John Oliver