Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

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

I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.

Tina Fey is a genius - I've seen it with my own eyes now. She's a very observant person, and I've never seen somebody write such a high volume or as quickly as she does.

My lines are witty in nature and I love to be surrounded by people who are witty.

My mum and dad are both really funny. My granddad's really funny. My uncle's really funny. Everyone's really funny. You have to be quick; otherwise, you get roasted. Everyone takes the piss quite a lot. You have to be really sharp.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.

Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.

A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.

A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.

[To the man who came up to her at a party and exclaimed effusively, 'Tallulah! I haven't seen you for 41 years!':] I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.

Vaclav Havel had this great sense of humor. And you kind of felt that he was making a little bit fun of everything at the same time.

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.

Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.