Jim Butcher Quotes

How old are you?” “Seventeen,” he answered promptly. “And how long have you been seventeen?” His lips twitched as he stared at the road. “A while,” he admitted at last.

I'm truly amazed at you, Garion," Polgara said. "I didn't think you had the faintest idea of how to speak a civilized language." "Thank you," he said, "I think.

You should be thankful that dark colors suit you. Not everyone wears black well." "Why, Lady Olivia, is that a compliment?" "Not so much as a compliment to you as an insult to everyone else," she assured him. "Thanks heaven for that. I don't think I would know how to conduct myself in a world in which you offered compliments.

I am not going to say you are right because I could not take it if you smirked." "I do not smirk," Vikirnoff claimed. "Yes, you do. And I detest that after all these centuries, you are making sense. Frankly, its scary." "It is only that you are not making sense sunce you acquired a lifemate. I hope that does not happen to all men. It would be a shame." "Your sense of humor is not improving," Nicolae pointed out dryly. "I do not have a sense of humor." Vikirnoff answered. "I had not noticed," Nicolae teased.

Shut up!" Eve yelled from somewhere upstairs. "Jackass!" "You know, when people say that, I just hear the word awesome.

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

I can be sarcastic.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

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

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

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

Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.

I don't mean to be funny.

I was the class innuendist.

I can be very dry and sarcastic.

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

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

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Wit is educated insolence.

Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

I have friends who are so sarcastic but I never view it as mean.

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

Humor is hostility.

I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.

Anybody who knows me knows that half the time I'm saying things with a somewhat humorous overtone.