Julia Quinn Quotes

You can make fun of everything.

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

A little irreverence is always important to being a columnist. I try to do that.

Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.

Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.

It's nice, this. The canal." He looks at me. "You." "I'll bet you say that to all the canals.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

Wit is educated insolence.

Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

I have friends who are so sarcastic but I never view it as mean.

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

It was Nick Willing's intention to make 'Hatter' as sarcastically British funny as he could.

My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth.

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

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

I like to write a lot of satire.

I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

We don't really see a lot of comedic moments in '24.' In fact, I haven't seen all of it, but from what I have seen, I don't know if I've ever laughed at anything that anyone has done on '24.'

Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.

Comedians are obsessed with justice and the truth.

I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.

If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.