Quotes About Wit

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

If someone is genuine, compassionate and kind, that is a turn-on. A sense of humor is a huge turn on, and that goes hand in hand with intelligence.

If there's an intelligence behind the joke - - it's a good joke.

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.

I think that villains who are just brawn, muscles and weapons are boring. So I always try to find intelligence in my villains and also a sense of humor whenever that is possible.

You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence

I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.

There's nothing sexier in a man than intelligence.

Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their own. Which, I admit, is an accomplishment, " she added, "because we're pretty damn good at stupid.

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

Un omagiu ironic adus moravurilor u?oare ale timpului.

They made comments about the women's legs, but, as they were not witty, their remarks had no finesse. Since their emotion was not torn by any point, they quite naturally skidded along on a stagnent ground of poetry.

Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!

Patricia: Do you know William Faulkner? Michel: No. Who's he? Have you slept with him?

You know me. I've got a warped sense of humor at the worst times.

Pôs um sorriso que uma faca poderia exibir se por acaso ganhasse vida.

I've actually tried to roast somebody that I don't like, and it doesn't go well. Either they're a bad sport or I'm not as funny as I could be.

Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean.