Quotes About Wit

The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.

If you don't have a sense of humor, you'll hurt yourself arguing with me.

American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people try their hand at this demanding profession (humor columnist). After a few months, almost all of them have given up and gone back to the ninth grade.

I've got a dope sense of humor, brah.

No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' .

I did a radio interview; the DJ's first question was "Who are you?" I had to think. Is this guy really deep, or did I drive to the wrong station?

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Latin is already a dead language, man... don't make it any deader.

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

I don't know how to describe my sense of humor.

Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous.

I think New Yorkers - they're media savvy. People have a sense of humor.

Humor is not far from my vocabulary.

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.

Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.

Sense of humor. A girl who doesn't take themselves too seriously. And someone who is spontaneous. They're the three things for me that really attract me to a girl.

He's got a great sense of humor for a guy who never says anything.

A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?

I think comedy is the hardest art form there is.

What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.

Apparently sometimes my humor is dryer than a desert.

Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.