Arthur Koestler Quotes

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

A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.

Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.

My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself.

My DVD cellophane was put on by a psychiatrist. It was shrink-wrapped.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people's memories for a while.

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

My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.

If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.'

Always say 'no pun intended' to draw attention to the intended pun.

Time flies like an arrow - but fruit flies like a banana.

A shooter takes shots, a shotter makes shots.

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.

You can't spell bass without ass

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

You can't spell squirrel without si, and that's me.

I went into a shop and I said, "Can someone sell me a kettle." The bloke said "Kenwood" I said, "Where is he?"

How every fool can play upon the word!

Just remember, golf is flog spelled backwards.

There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle of words, and is comprehended under the general name of punning.