Moliere Quotes

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

The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready.

So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

I'm not a person who can spontaneously say funny things.

I always think of the good comebacks on the car ride home.

My brain's not sharp enough to come up with a witty comment.

A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.

She asked me why I always had something flip to say. I said that I didn't know, but having been blessed with the gift, I felt obliged to use it.

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

When you're around people who are trying to be funny all day and trying to one-up each other, that's just naturally - if you want to do it - it's going to make you better.

Brains and a sense of humor trump everything else.

I'm the one who is always bantering. Millie Bright and Rach Daly are pretty bad. Jill Scott is up there, too, but I'm probably the one who initiates it all, and people come back at me.

JaVale McGee is one of the smartest guys I know. Like, he's a nerd, plays with gadgets, and is into technology. He's funny - he's got crazy jokes, and his timing with jokes is really funny. You have to be really smart to think the way he does.

The kick [of comedy] is to think quickly. It's a great kick.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

People are clever, but almost no one ever devises an optimal quip precisely at the needed moment. Therefore, virtually all great one-liners are later inventions - words that people wished they had spouted, but failed to manufacture at the truly opportune instant.

Many live by their wits but few by their wit.