Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that doesn't do it for me either. You just try to be funny.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.

What I don't like is snark for snark's sake. If you are going to make fun of me, at least be witty while doing it.

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled.

Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.

I love smart comedy.

You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella.

Wit is educated insolence.

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.