Quotes About Wit

How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

It's better to be tough than strong, better to be clever than intelligent," he said, repeating a family maxim. "I was tough and

It's better to be tough than strong, better to be clever than intelligent.

It's a serious world, someone has to make fun of it.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

Smart means you know lots of shit. Clever means you can pretend you know it.

How the mighty have fallen," he said, looking down on Aten. Ard-Greimne was short and incredibly sensitive about his height. He always wore shoes with lifts in them. When Aten didn't respond, he tried again. "I said, how the mighty—" "It wasn't funny or even clever the first time you said it," Aten said. "Nor is it original.

I love that word. Gaydar. So clever." "I'm afraid mine is broken," Burke said. "It never occurred to me that you were gay." "It's because I'm teeming with masculinity," Gaither joked.

talking to yourself again, jas? yes, it beats talking to you. oh, time machine back to first grade much? only to visit your brain.

She raised an eyebrow. "I thought I sensed something oddly human about you. From the moment I though it was simply residue from your recent and ill-advised horizontal romp with that girl" "What makes you think we were horizontal?" Darrack's lip twitched

Owen's gaze flicked to me again. "Maybe you're right. And what a wonderful change it is. Tell me, Sarah, how on earth do you put up with Monsieur de Bennicoeur's dour ways? You must feel as if you've married a high school principal." I shrugged. "Guess that's my type. The dourer the better, I say." "I'm not dour," Thierry said dourly.

I think cynicism often disguises itself as humour.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the part.

Between jest and earnest.

Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.

Attend to me, Sancho, I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and seasonably applied; but to be for ever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

I began to think a joke was not truly good unless someone got hit for telling it.

Comedy, like composting, involves smart recycling.

I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.

For birth control, I rely on my personality.