Quotes About Wit

I'm as thick as a plank.

Mark Watson and Paul Sinha have been exactly the same - very, very clever, and very, very thick.

Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.

Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'

I prefer improvising, rather than creating comedy out of thin air.

Whenever dark things happen in my life, there is always some dark humour.

I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.

Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent.

My major vice is sarcasm with a side of caffeine addiction.

What? No defense? Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!

He spoke gently, laughed often, and never exercised his wit at the expense of others.

Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.

The truth: after just one novel, I had lost touch with my muse. The quietly desperate, jaded girl in my head had stopped slinging sardonic wit into my psyche.

The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

There's no shame in being second to Stephen Fry. Unless it's in a straight nose competition.

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

I don't want to be a challenge, either; don't want to be an alarm system and floodlights and a gate that makes someone want to test his skill and wit against it. I just want to be a big dog in the yard. Next time you come 'round, the dog might be inside. Might be at the vet, might be mama's li'l puddin' pup and no threat to anyone at all, but might also take a chunk out of your leg, and so better to try elsewhere.

Is this Niamh woman as …" He gestured to Rose with a vague wave of his hand. "As awesome as me?" Rose answered, glaring at him. "Yeah, she is." "That wasn't the word I was thinking of.

Husband-hunting. Always a rousing sport. I suppose you go there dressed to kill." "No, indeed. What good is a dead husband?" She smiled airily. "I go dressed to maim only.

Lord Hartley has strict requirements for his heir's prospective wife, particularly that she have "a striking appearance and a presentable wit." One only hopes that the heir apparent recognizes what his father does not—that a woman with a presentable appearance and a striking wit is far more interesting. L

You can pretend to be serious you can't pretend to be witty.

Ger says that Kat has a tendency to push things to extremes, to go over the edge, merely from a juvenile desire to shock, which is hardly a substitute for wit. One of these days, he says, she will go way too far. Too far for him, is what he means.

It's when we stop and think that we rediscover the courage, wit, compassion, imagination, delight, frustration, discovery, and devotion that work can provoke—in short, all the things at work that do count, beyond measure.