Quotes About Wit

It is positively because he is quick-witted that he is long-winded.

There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it.

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

Is there another word for synonym?

Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.

The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

She says, he is a great soul.—A great bladder for dried peas to rattle in!" said Mrs. Cadwallader.

One must use such brains as are to be found

Happily she never attempted to joke, and this perhaps was the most decisive mark of her cleverness

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift.

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

'Family Guy'. It's not only the funniest programme on television, it's the most wonderfully, indecorously literate.

Woody says I can make jokes, but I don't get them - I'm always looking deeper for the meanings.

A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They were always the underdogs who were using wit to sort of battle their way through. And it seems to me that a lot of contemporary U.S. comedies are shot through with losers. None of the characters in 'The Big Bang Theory,' for instance, are studs.

My personal favorite is Woody Allen, who is just amazing as a comedian.

Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that.

Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.

I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke.