Quotes About Wit

One can always come up with funny lists and jokes. You know what? I take it back. Not everyone can always come up with funny lists and some jokes. I'm very lucky to have a gift where I can do that pretty ably.

Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke.

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

It'd be funny if one of them was called Gavin. Funny but irrelevant.

And then I had my greatest stroke of genius since that ham sandwich with pickles that time.

I hadn't the wit left to divert Mme. Pontchartrain's determined questioning. Fortunately, I had the wit to realize it, so I pled a cognac headache and fled.

The Merlin's sense of humor would be the death of me yet.

Tristen had been only half kidding. Samael's expression hinted that the angel had the other half. Tristen guessed that added up to one complete sense of humour between them.

If beaks could smirk, she would have sworn him to be smirking.

Oh, don't think we're all seriousness and stealth, Merlin.

At least somebody's sense of humor was intact.

He spoke before she could quite stop laughing and sink him with a comeback. And he was certain, even on brief acquaintance, that she could indeed sink him with a comeback.

Ever notice how really smart people enjoy making silly jokes?

A man who is so cunning that he is sometimes stupid.

Don't step on any dead bats." It took me a moment to realize he was joking.

Ah, the ancient language of sarcasm. How it suits you." "Why thank you, petal. It is one of my many talents, and I happen to be fluent in the language." I dazzled him with my smile. "You need to give me a manly nickname." "You haven't given me any reason to give you one yet." "That's harsh.

I don't want to be Caesar Plodding round Britain, [...] Freezing my nuts off in a Scythian midden Hadrian's matching riposte conveyed wit and affability and a side of his personality that he was eager to project: I don't want to be a Florus, Crawling round pubs, Skulking in pie-shops Bitten by bugs.

In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: 'Who's the third?

Siempre es tan brutalmente sincero? —Sólo cuando además de guapa la mujer es inteligente.

Un diablo inteligente ni siquiera necesita mentir

Lo que dices es hábil pero es un juego de palabras. ?¿Conoces tú algo que no sea un juego de palabras?

He shook his head. "Not a bit of it. When I arrived, I was small and dark and ugly. The perfect quarry for every bully. And then, one day, I grew tired of it. I had discovered that sarcasm and wit could be far more effective than fists. The duller-brained the boy, the more others laughed at my bons mots. And so I became a nasty bit of goods in my own way, fighting with words where I could not fight with fists.

Punning and groaning are brothers.