Quotes About Wit

William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.

Good comedians are great philosophers.

Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

No tricks, Syn, " Ryder growled from where he stood a few feet away."Tricks are for kids, silly rabbit, " I said

Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh?

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Smartass Disciple: Master, what is the secret recipe of your happiness?Master of Stupidity: If I tell you, there is nobody left to be made fun of.

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home.

Why don't you go home to your wife? Better yet, I'll go home to your wife, and outside of the improvement, she won't notice any difference.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.

I realized, dumb people don't know they're dumb. When people try to make me laugh and they try to be funny, that's when they lose me. I find a lot of comedy in honesty.

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.

Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.

My dad is so unique in what he does. It's not like I'm taking a torch from him and doing his thing. I hope I've carried from him a little bit of a sense of irony, a little bit of a wink.

I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.

All humor is rooted in pain.