Quotes About Wit

He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.

I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

Simon Pegg is terribly talented, very funny, such a delicious sense of humour.

If you're showing people where it's smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any movie, even a conventional movie, with any comedians, they're either not terribly intelligent or they're not doing something well.

I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.

Do you want your scarf back?' I asked. 'No, just the girl who goes with it.' Oh my gosh, that guy knows his lines.

The Wit is more curse than gift, I sometimes think. Perhaps the hardest part of possessing it is witnessing so completely the casual cruelty of humans. Some speak of the savagery of beasts. I will ever prefer that to the thoughtless contempt some men have towards animals.

Fitz!' Motley greeted me. 'Hello, stupid!' she added. The

Fred: "Is that brick wall your boyfriend?" Doug: "Only in my dreams." Fred: "Oh, you too? I'm Fred." Doug: "Doug. I should mention, in all fairness though that Christy's boyfriend is my best friend. He's the brick wall you should be worried about.

What are you doing here?" All right, he was standing in front of an easel, holding a paint palette and brush. "Taxidermy?" he responded with just a touch of his own sarcasm.

Isn't he cute? That he thinks he has a sense of humour?

His sense of humor is purely cheap vaudeville, yet everyone falls for it.

He didn't seem like the sharpest tool in the shed.

You must be poor. why? cuz ur not making any cents!

That is what I like about you, Mr. Dashwood, she said. You are so decisive. It saves me the bother of thinking for myself. That is what I like about you, Mrs. Dashwood, he said. You are so sarcastic. It saves me the trouble of trying to be tactful and charming.

Adieu, Lord Dain," she answered without turning her head. "Have a pleasant evening with your cows." Cows? She was merely trying to provoke him, Dain told himself. The remark was a pathetic attempt at a setdown. To take offense was to admit he'd felt the sting. He told himself to laugh and return to his… cows.

We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.

Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.

Nothing is a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.

Dealing with Indians I found them of shrewd intelligence, quick to detect the false, quick to appreciate quality, quick to resent contempt and to appreciate bravery. So much of the Indian's life was predicated upon courage that he respected it above all else. He needed courage in the hunt, and in warfare, and to achieve success within the tribe he needed both courage and wit.

Salt is like good humor, and nearly everything is better for a pinch of it.