Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart.

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Wit is educated insolence.

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

You can't deny the truth. And that's what makes smart comedy so good.

After wisdom comes wit.

"You are fairly smart," I said after a while. "You are fairly good at compliments," he answered.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

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.

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

I like witty people, people who can be witty on the spot.

I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.

The more wit the less courage.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.