Wit and Humor Quotes

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

There is no Algorithm for Humor

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.

Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.

It's quite frightening; the business of trying to be funny is very hairy. In comedy, the potential for humiliation is huge. Trying to be funny and failing is about the most embarrassing thing you can do.

I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.

Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.

If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing is the hardest kind of writing there is.

Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

Quinn Cummings is a master story-teller and her book is nothing short of delightful. Her insights into topics like celebrity, parenting, and cats with a taste for homicide are pithy and uproarious and not to be missed. Notes from the Underwire is charming, hilarious, and just snarky enough to be ultimately satisfying.

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.

As I get older, I think I'm more interested in comedy that doesn't take cheap shots. But I watched some of that Justin Bieber "roast" and I thought it was hilarious.

It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humor, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far, that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule.

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.

It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.

HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.

I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing' and those who do that - humorists they are sometimes called - are looked down upon by the intelligentsia and sneered at.

Humor disarms people. They don't feel threatened.

Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor.

I always made people laugh, and everybody wanted me to sit at the table with them. I don't joke as much as I used to, but I can still be a little comedian every now and then.