Quotes About Wit

A joke is just a paintbrush. It takes someone funny to paint something beautiful.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

I don't think I am particularly funny. In fact, I know I'm not.

I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor.

Comedy is based partly on mean-spiritedness.

The most important quality in a partner is a sense of humour.

In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.

Cheyenne snatched back her phone. "Someone took her brave pills today." "And washed them down with stupid juice," Casper added, cocking his gun.

En wat is nu de moraal van dit verhaal?' vroeg Minkovski. 'Dat een slimme Jood zich uit elke onaangename situatie weet te redden,' zei Zinnenoff.

Gil: Is your mind always in the gutter? Zeetha: - asks the man with no pants .

Votever hyu say, meester "I'm so schmot I don't gotta make sense.

I even, to my own amusement if no one else's, developed the knack of cursing in iambic pentameters.

Come, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, Th' indifferent judge between the high and low; With shield of proof shield me from out the prease Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw.

Just the other day I said to Fang, "Don't you think we've got a storybook romance?" and he said, "Yes, and every page is ripped.

A comedian is someone who tells the truth. Truth is the set of all jokes told by all comedians in the world.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

I have a small vocabulary, which I move around fast.

A lot of times, comedy writers will go for the gay joke, and I've been vocal about saying, 'Go for the smart joke.'

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.