Quotes About Wit

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

He that hath a satirical vein, as maketh others afraid of his wit, so he need be afraid of others' memory.

A great deal of excellent research has been spent on the difference between "humor" and "wit," into which metaphysical problem " our limits," of course, forbid us to enter. There is, however, between them, the distinction of dry sticks and green sticks; there is in humor a living energy, a diffused potency, a noble sap; it grows upon the character of the humorist.

Wit is part of the machinery of the intellect.

Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.

What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.

The friends in my real life do tend to be smart and funny and creative. I am lucky!

I accidentally make innuendos all the time without even realising. I'm middle-aged, in that sense.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

I think that 'Saving Grace' is pretty funny. I think that the show and the woman have a pretty great sense of humor.

The thing that I love about 'Will & Grace' is that there's a clear-cut reason for my character to be there. I come in with the zinger. My character seldom has much to do with moving the story ahead. I know exactly what my job is there. It's just a party, basically. I'm just having a ball.

Cary Grant is really the master of not taking himself so seriously.

I always gravitate toward the humor in something.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

I like grown up comedy.

You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard.

Chris Guest movies are funny.

I was shot from the funny gun.

Let the other guys do the crybaby stuff. Go for the laughs.

It's a fine line between hack and good comedy.

Woman: Did you know that women are smarter than men? Man: No, I didn't. Woman: See what I mean?

Harry Constantine: It happens to us all. We get a sniff of sorcery and Oh! what plans we make! We'll shake Creation and leave nothing but smiles and wit and a reputation all men envy!

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

All intellectual labor is inherently humorous