Quotes About Wit

No," Jack struggled to quip, "but

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie.

When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.

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.

Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.

I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf.

My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture.

The trouble with Grace, she thought, is that she is so literal. But that was the trouble with most people, when it came down to it; there were very few who enjoyed flights of fantasy, and to have that sort of mind--one which enjoyed dry with and understood the absurd--left one in a shrinking minority.

It was Coolidge of whom Dorothy Parker, when told of his death, asked, "How can they tell?" Dorothy Parker was extremely witty, but in this case her amusing observation obscured the fact that Coolidge, who was undoubtedly dull, was also a fairly successful president–for the very reason that he did nothing, and said even less. That would not be possible today, of course. People had to do things, and would not rest until they had done them.

Hannah looked from Cooper to Kerry, then at both of them, before finally looking at Kerry. "Seriously, marry him before he wises up." "Hey," Kerry replied, mock wounded. "And why do you say that?" "You speak the same language." "Says the woman who communicates with her husband using old movie quotes that nobody gets but the two of you.

There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.

How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.