Quotes About Wit

I've been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I'm pretty good at it.

Some people in this life really enjoy being sent up and Nicholas Parsons is one of them because he's a sadomasochist.

In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.

Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?

We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.

Oye, gordito, ¿eres el pintor más grande de México o del mundo? —Del mundo, Lupe, del mundo. —¿Hasta de Chinajapón? —Hasta de China y de Japón. —¿Chinajapón no es un solo país? —No. —¿Entonces por qué cantan eso de «chino, chino, japonés, come caca y no me des»? —¿Es eso lo que sabes de geografía, Lupe?

though he could certainly be witty, he wasn't what you would really call funny, not like Dickens was.

Our age is so resolutely unheroic, and the employment opportunities for registered demigods are now so scarce, that all we can do, in our enfeebled state, is laugh with envy and disbelief at the memory of those who still had the wit and the wherewithal to live large.

A joke is a question of mind over manner.

MILO: You must be joking. ANDREW: You would know it if I were.

A good comedian makes own funny jokes to make the people laugh but a great comedian makes the fun and jokes of oneself to make the people laugh.

A person who can think differently and truly on his feet will always find it difficult to sit and fit as an employee in a workplace, for his attitude & approach towards the work will often hit the ego of most co-workers who can't compete with him on his level of wisdom and wit.

An ordinary person always find every woman to be pretty and each rich man's reply to be witty.

Be called an owl, but not a real fool.

Better delete own social media post or tweet than contradict the baseless views of those who enjoy being in conflict with others or can't use own wit.

Say anything devoid of wisdom and wit on a personal account of social media, many often start putting across points in favour or against it especially when it is from a host having a lot of money; speak something that is really brainy, there is likely to be no support or counteract any mainly when the netizen is simple and ordinary.

The biggest comedy hit is that a person who could use his wisdom and wit in assigned job is often regarded as not culturally fit in a private organisation.

Hrishikesh Mukherjee's cinema brims with wit, charm and an inherent decency.

A man of wit could not be a knave or villain.

Nothing shows the wit so poor, as wonder, nor birth so mean, as pride.

Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality