Walter Winchell Quotes

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Sarcasm is lost in print.

I was the class innuendist.

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

I've been in more laps than a napkin.

I tend to like dry humor.

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.

I understand your new play is full of single entendres.

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know where wittiness is constructive.

You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?

I'm not hurting anybody. Comedy's all about innuendo. I'm putting it out there just like anybody else.

I really didn't say everything I said.

Woody says I can make jokes, but I don't get them - I'm always looking deeper for the meanings.

You would have to be born with a gene that doesn't allow you to recognize sarcasm if you take anything I say seriously.

If the social evolution leads to jokes, I use them.

Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would not have come. BENEDICK You take pleasure then in the message? BEATRICE Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point ... You have no stomach, signior: fare you well. Exit BENEDICK Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that... (Much Ado About Nothing)

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

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

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

I can be a very sarcastic person, and sometimes people take every word I say literally.

Sarcasm doesn't read sarcastic in print.

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.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.