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Quotes About Wit

I thought I was funny as a kid.
~ Jo Brand
I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can't imagine them properly now.
~ Jo Walton
Sometimes she talked like a poet; she made a little joke of it, so that you wouldn't mind.
~ Joan D. Vinge
My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.
~ Joan Rivers
Is this the point where I sing the little song about Pic and London sittin' in a tree?" "Only if you want the tree shoved up your ass.
~ Joanna Wylde
She looked at Murphy, whose crazy brown hair leapt out of her cheap wool hat like snakes in a trick can of nuts. Then she winked at Judge Abbott as if they were in on some private joke. "Murphy, you should come in for a cut before your interviews start." Murphy squinted at Lucretia with exaggerated concern. "Do they do waxing? It looks like your mustache is growing back.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
She had passed the spring of youth, but her wit prolonged the triumph of its reign, and they mutually assisted the fame of each other; for those, who were charmed by her loveliness, spoke with enthusiasm of her talents; and others, who admired her playful imagination, declared, that her personal graces were unrivalled.
~ Ann Radcliffe
But you're not as stupid as they say!... Or are you?
~ Anna Gavalda
I'm terrible at practical jokes. I do them too well, so they're not funny. I end up saying, 'Oh, no, I'm joking, I'm joking.'
~ Anna Torv
I'll see if I can find someone in the Toland Police Department who doesn't use his brains to wipe his backside.
~ Anne Bishop
Aye subtle hen
~ Anne Donovan
Prithee Sirrah and Begorrah.
~ Anne Enright
You are wickedly droll, Lord Downing. However do you survive with such wit at your disposal?" He smiled. "It is most troublesome.
~ Anne Mallory
I am dating, but it is hard to find someone quick enough and funny enough. I am quite demanding.
~ Anne Robinson
We challenge each other to be funnier and smarter.
~ Annie Gottlieb
I was funny in a way that was not dissing the teacher; I was funny just to be funny. A real charmer with a prominent mustache that he didn't know what to do with and a smart-alecky attitude.
~ Jason Mantzoukas
I am naturally prone to fun or to be funny, but when I talk about myself in interviews, then it's an intellectual exercise.
~ Morten Harket
I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'
~ Joan Rivers
One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that.
~ Ronnie Corbett
This thy wit hath no wit.
~ Euripides
Brother, I would thy wit were like thy spear! But Nature wills not one man should be wise In all things; each must seek his separate prize. And thine is battle pure. There comes this word
~ Euripides
Odysseus. Say, Diomede, wilt make the men thy share, Or catch the steeds and leave the fight to me? Diomede. I take the killing, thou the stablery: It needs keen wit and a neat hand.
~ Euripides
I can't bare you when you're not amusing.
~ Evelyn Waugh