Quotes About Wit

I'd rather be funny than wise.

Then Gertie kicked Ida Belle under the table and she lifted her gaze to mine. ''I'm sorry I made you ride naked in my car wearing a trash bag,'' she said, not sounding the least bit sorry. ''No, you're not,'' I said

Jane Austen mastered her unscrupulous charmers before she did her heroes.

I think, for one's single book, one would be wise to choose Mansfield Park or Emma rather even than Pride and Prejudice. "Wisdom is better than wit," as Jane Austen told Fanny, "and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side." People who begin by loving Pride and Prejudice, may end by rereading the later novels more often.

There was a monstrous deal of stupid quizzing and common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.' 'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.

"Only a novel"… in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

Only a novel"... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.

Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning,/as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it.

We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes.

I always appear smarter when I dress up in my giant nipple costume. I know this because I'll overhear people say things like, "At least he's not a complete boob.

My advice for a person who's just fallen out of a skyscraper window is, Flap your arms...faster.

If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

Satire is enjoyable compensation for being forced to think.

Captain Billings, he drawled finally, if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass.

It was before him again in its completeness--the choice in which she was content to rest: in the stupid costliness of the food and the showy dulness of the talk, in the freedom of speech which never arrived at wit and the freedom of act which never made for romance.

I can give you a cup of tea in no time-and you won't meet any bores.

Lily laughed. "Merci du compliment!

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