Quotes About Wordplay

You know, there is only one letter's difference between lonely and lovely," I told him once when he was down. "There is only one letter's difference between loner and loser," he retorted.

Will you pretty please with brown sugar and cinnamon make a fucking Scrabble word?

The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

I'm an incorrigible punster. Do not incorrige me.

"Shine, Shine, save poor me!I'll give you all the pussy a Shine can see."Shine says, "Now pussy's good, but pussy don't last—Shine's going to save his own black ass."And Shine swam on.

A pun is a short quip followed by a long groan.

If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?

If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

English is a funny language; that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway.

A good pun is its own reword.

Ban Nab. It's a palindrome.' He said nothing, so I added: 'It reads the same forwards and backwards.' 'Do geese see God?' Hawthorne asked.

If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.

I think the humor of double puns is incredible.

I live and die by puns.

I love making puns.

I like really bad puns - proper, red-top, nasty puns - I find them funny.

I'm very competitive about puns.

I loved saying 'swab' in my 2014 fringe show. In an otherwise very mumbly performance, there wasn't a day that I didn't absolutely chuck myself at it.

Thank you, horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse. What you are is a liar food.

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

ANTIPHRASIS  (ANTI'PHRASIS)   n.s.[from    against, and uq  a form of speech.]The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning. You now find no cause to repent, that you never dipt your hands in the bloody high courts of justice, so called only by antiphrasis.South'sDedication to hisSermons.

Roumanian is an easy language. You just add a tl to everything.

And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.