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Quotes About Wit

He gave her a look that you could have poured on a waffle.
~ Ring Lardner, Jr.
If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.
~ Alton Brown
I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.
~ Paula Poundstone
As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.
~ David Eddings
I do love poop. I can't help it. The heart wants what it wants. I enjoy being clever and pithy and political, but nothing's going to get me like dumb stuff.
~ Sarah Silverman
I love playing people who don't have a sense of humor for instance, there's nothing funnier to me than a person with no sense of humor.
~ Rita Moreno
I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth!
~ Leonard Marx
I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.
~ John Zorn
I could eat alphabet soup and shit better lyrics.
~ Johnny Mercer
he was the proud owner of a quite colossal member, which on the many awestruck occasions it had been exposed to public view had been compared variously to a giant frankfurter, an overfed python, a length of led piping, the trunk of a rogue elephant, a barrage balloon, an airport-sized Toblerone and a roll of wet wallpaper.
~ Jonathan Coe
Listen Charles, if blondes were poison, I'd have died thirty years ago.
~ Jonathan Latimer
There are also several notes in your file suggesting that you are a world-class smartass." "Really? You mean I made it through the nationals?" "And you apparently think you're hilarious." "You're saying I'm not?
~ Jonathan Maberry
A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Don't set your wit against a child.
~ Jonathan Swift
'Tis an old maxim in the schools,That flattery's the food of fools;Yet now and then your men of witWill condescend to take a bit.
~ Jonathan Swift
...have the same Use with Burning-Glasses, to collect the diffus'd Rays of Wit and Learning in Authors, and make them point with Warmth and Quickness upon the Reader's Imagination.
~ Jonathan Swift
For conversation well endu'd;She calls it witty to be rude;And, placing raillery in railing,Will tell aloud your greatest failing.
~ Jonathan Swift
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
~ Emily Post
A lot of truth is said in jest.
~ Eminem
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
~ Emma Thompson
I got into a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into corners very well."
~ Emo Philips
My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.
~ Emo Philips
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
~ English proverb