Quotes About Wit

I'm 83, and I feel like a 20-year-old, but unfortunately there's never one around.

Repartee is what you wish you'd said.

That's what she said.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.

I think that the habit of gloomy poetry is very funny. It's like a special competition in losing.

I know a lot about cars. I can look at a car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.

Oh, this has got to be something humorus.

Mon Dieu, que vous êtes vulgaire ! Pour moi, un de mes étonnements, c'est que vous ayez pu faire une fille si spirituelle que moi.

Dor. So you think, Lysidas, that all the wit and beauty are to be found in serious poems, and that comic pieces are trifles which deserve no praise? Ur. I certainly do not think so. Tragedy no doubt is very fine when it is well written; but comedy has also its charms, and I believe that one is no less difficult than the other.

You see him laboring to produce bons mots.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

The limerick packs laughs anatomical, into space that is quite economical; but the good ones I've seen, so seldom are clean, and the clean ones so seldom are comical.

I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

Even in the worst, there is something funny.

Logic is a 3D glasses of flat reality humor.

Where did you learn your charm—the gulag?

You sure got a quick trigger, Sienna," he teased...

Smart women were his catnip.

Looks like Egor is a quick draw, Ms. Baird. There are pills for that, you know.

If he laid on the Irish any thicker, she'd be drowning in shamrocks.

Reía como si yo acabara de decir algo increíblemente inteligente que la hacía burbujear de alegría.

Comedian Marty Feldman adds, "The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.