Quotes About Wit

Being funny is everything to me.

Being funny is very complex.

I enjoy laughing at other people being funny.

I think part of being human is jokes.

I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean.

To tugboat was to try Minna's patience. Any time you pushed your luck, said too much, overstayed a welcome, or overestimated the usefulness of a given method or approach, you were guilty of having tugged the boat. Tugboating was most of all a dysfunction of wits and storytellers, and a universal one. Anybody who thought himself funny would likely tug a boat here or there. Knowing when a joke or verbal gambit was right at its limit, quitting before the boat had been tugged, that was art.

I said I kicked a French chicken in the stomach once. Huh? It said, 'Oeuf.' What is that? It's a joke. Do you want to hear another, or have you already had un oeuf?

Even Alf is not humorous at times.

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof I hope there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either of wit or sublime.

Tis an old maxim in the schools that flattery is the food of fools. Yet now and then your men of wit will condescend to take a bit.

Jonathan Swift

seen the moral of my own behavior very frequent in England since my return, where a little contemptible varlet, without the least title to birth, person, wit, or common-sense, shall presume to look with importance, and put himself upon a foot with the greatest persons of the kingdom.

I cannot imagine why we should be at expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

Recordé una broma de Schopenhauer y contesté: —A mí también. Podemos salir juntos los dos.

Lo que más admiro en los demás es la ironía, la capacidad de verse de lejos y no tomarse en serio. Después, el valor y la humildad, siempre que no sea ostentosa.

La frase quería ser ingeniosa y adiviné que no era la primera vez que la pronunciaba. Supe después que no era característica de ella, pero lo que decimos no siempre se parece a nosotros.

The definition of wit is a joke that doesn't make you laugh.

The only type of humor that is excused lower classness is satire, and satire is the chamber music of comedy - a joke that many people profess to enjoy, but few actually get.

Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is.

My dear Watson," he said, "you aren't supposed to be as clever as this.

About what you'd expect, was Gideon's grumpy and uncharitable thought, if you crossed John Gielgud with W. C. Fields.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.