Tim Ferriss Quotes

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

I'm not a big fan of comedy roasts because most of the time I find them to be really mean, but once in a while, you'll hear something perfectly worded and well-crafted.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

At this point, we've ripped on everyone.

Jokes are grievances.

You can make fun of everything.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

Wit is educated insolence.

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

It's dangerous talking about comedy; it gets to be very tedious and presumptuous.

I knew how to come up with jokes at someone's expense really fast.

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.

Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.

Those who object to wit are envious of it.

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

I like sarcasm. I like snark.

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.

I can be sarcastic.