Quotes About Wit

Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.

The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.

Want to know why women don't blink during foreplay? Not enough time.

I have been thinking-- He chuckled. Always a dangerous thing for a woman to do, he said.

Anger, intelligence, and wit are ultimately more seductive than zero percent body fat.

That's like the dog calling the cat's arse hairy!

If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.

How I would like that now, that sheer senseless falling in love with externals, the love never earned by qualities of goodness, of character, of intelligence, of wit, of charm, of life-force. In short, how I would like to be loved in a way never earned so that I would never have to keep earning it or work for it

Son chispazos de humor que se agradecen, que revelan que en el interior de ese ser «podrido de literatura» había picardía, malicia, vida.

Aubrey Davenport was dressed like a fop, had the manners of a fop, and appeared to have the intelligence of a potato.

if you look someone in the eye and call them a 'fat, worthless, syphilitic puddle of badger crap' it doesn't mean you don't like them. It can be – and often is – a term of endearment.

Wit, shrewdness about other aspects of life, grasp of the arts, fundamental good nature, none seemed any help in solving his emotional problems; to some extent these qualities, as displayed by him, were even a hindrance.

There are moments in which stupid people say clever things, obtuse people say sharp things, and good-natured people say ill-natured things.

A joke that required to be laughed at was, with him, not worth uttering. He could appreciate by a keener sense than that of his ears the success of his wit, and would see in the eyes of his audience whether or no he was understood and appreciated.

She simply chose to have some one sitting with her to whom she could speak and make little cross-grained, sarcastic, and ill-natured remarks.

He was not witty, nor did he deal in anecdotes.

Who's stupid now, Jimbo?!

Wit is educated insolence.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.

Some [jests] are becoming to a gentleman, others are not; see that you choose such as become you . Irony better befits a gentleman than buffoonery; the ironical man jokes to amuse himself, the buffoon to amuse other people.

Brian's face turned pouty. "So you were just blowing smoke up my ass." Anna smiled dimly. "You may have been inhaling, dear, but I wasn't blowing.

Poole and Bowman had often humorously referred to themselves as caretakers or janitors aboard a ship that could really run itself. They would have been astonished, and more than a little indignant, to discover how much truth that jest contained.