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Quotes About Wit

Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman.
~ Charles Dickens
I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.
~ Marlon Wayans
Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
~ William Hazlitt
The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.
~ Bill Vaughan
Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead." "Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.
~ Cassandra Clare
Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery
~ Charles Simmons
I like girls with a good sense of humour. Girls who are a lot of fun to be around.
~ Corbin Bleu
One nice thing about telling a clean joke is there's a good chance no one's heard it before.
~ Doug Larson
I think if the joke is in good taste - it's a good joke.
~ Eric Andre
[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.
~ Eric Andre
It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.
~ Judith Leiber
Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.
~ Louis Kronenberger
But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.
~ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.
~ Peggy Noonan
I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor.
~ PJ Harvey
It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.
~ Roger Ebert
What's dry?' 'Good question. Next question!
~ Tamora Pierce
This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.
~ Art Buchwald
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
~ Edward Abbey
If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
~ Alan King
Jesse Joyce is a great writer.
~ Dave Attell
I've got a great sense of humor.
~ Anthony Hopkins
I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.
~ Treat Williams