Quotes About Wordplay

Here's a riddle: When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: Whenever you want it to be!

What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience.

I was greatly influenced by 'The Goons' and 'Monty Python' reconstituting what comedy was - it could come from a funny word, not just a set up and a pay-off. I liked the zaniness; they were satirical, slightly saucy and very literary in their references.

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

The word devil is very beautiful, if you read it backwards it becomes lived.

I don't just like sexual double entendres I love them, I stroke them, I milk them, I spank them when they're naughty.

The cat is the beutiful devil. And here we can use the word, even without the "a." - from a Dec. 21 1960, a letter to Sheri Martinelli On Cats

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

It's hard to imagine an American sports team named the Diarrheas ("Gimme a 'D' …").

If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged

Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.

Very well. My name is WxrtHltl-jwlpklz," said the demon smugly. "Where were you when the vowels were handed out? Behind the door?" said Nanny Ogg.

Alejandro, who thought he was a wit. And he was, if you put a "nit" in front of it

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

If con is the opposite of pro, and progress is good, what is Congress?

I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"?

Heller's Catch-18, Fitzgerald's The High-Bouncing Lover, Orwell's The Last Man in Europe, Tolstoy's All's Well That Ends Well

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

There is a single entendre, but I don't know about a triple one.

Drum Competitions are called such because no one wants to win the big Beat Off.

I named my dog Stay, so I can say, 'Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!

Why are they called buildings when they're already finished? Shouldn't they be called builts?

Do Roman paramedics refer to IV's as '4's'?

The sign said "eight items or less". So I changed my name to Les.