Quotes About Wit

Books are a way of saying: This room seems to have more than its fair share of bozos in it.

If you were up to your neck in cat vomit and someone threw dog poop at you would you duck?

Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy.

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.

Think of what would happen to us... if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.

The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.

That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.

In my personal life, I'm hilarious! I was always a bit of a jokester.

Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself.

I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

When a chick has a sense of humor, there's nothing more attractive.

Mr Pugh: Pigs can't read, my dear. Mrs Pugh: I know one who can.

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

Now, my dear Cap, if you don't look sharp your hour is come! Nothing on earth will save you, Cap, but your own wits! For if ever I saw mischief in any one's face, it is in that fellow's that is eating you up with his great eyes at the same time that he is laughing at you with his big mouth! Now Cap, my little man, be a woman!

She confused being spartan with being charitable, and gave away her possessions without truly doing good with them. She confused being sick with being brave, and suffered agonies while imagining she merited praise for it. She confused wit with intelligence, and made people laugh rather than lightening their hearts or making them think.

She confused wit with intelligence, and made people laugh rather than lightening their hearts or making them think.

He is bounce, effort and snark.

Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.

Sarcasm is a weapon of the intellectual

The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

Speaker Reed's] wit was brilliant and usually cruel... Asked to attend the funeral of a political enemy, he refused, "but that does not mean to say I do not heartily approve of it.