Quotes About Wit

Ginny looked at him in a puzzled way. "Are you in the habit of saying things you don't mean?" "There is a certain type of wit called sarcasm," said Lord Gerald loftily. Ginny's brow cleared. "Oh now I understand" she said. "You were just being nasty.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

I was clever in a severely limited sense

Who can say when subversive play will subvert its own rules? Sometimes a jester's wit might cut too close to the bone and the king would lop off his head. The uncertainty — that straddling of the boundaries of real and unreal — is a source of the peculiar emotional power of subversive play.

Sometimes you're about as funny as a busted condom.

Hey, it's me. Just checking if you were dead. If you aren't, call me. If you are, call me anyway.

Beware the inveterate punster, Doyle, it's a sure sign of brewing mental disturbance.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. —James Thurber

Clever wordplay engenders grudging appreciation in your peers, but surprise wordplay gives birth to laughter. We smile at wit. We laugh at jokes.

A key prerequisite to thinking and writing funny is understanding funny. And

Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of sense and nonsense.

As Mark Twain observed, "Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

Regression Sigmund Freud's theory of humor contended that humor, like sleep, is therapeutic. But even more important, he argued, wit can express—in a relatively appropriate way—urges and feelings that can't otherwise be let loose, such as the desire to act on regressive infantile sexual or aggressive behavior. More to the point, Freud believed that a lack of humor can be a sign of mental illness.

It's very hard to write humor.

A person whom Mark had small regard for, said: Mark, I recently chanced to pass by your house. To which Mark dryly replied: And may you always continue to do so.

Wit is the only wallBetween us and the dark.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

Edmonton is not the end of the world but you can certainly see it from there.

Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny.

Why was I with her? She reminds me of you. In fact, she reminds me more of you than you do!

I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.