ironic wit Quotes

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

British humour is very cruel. It's my favourite kind of humour; if it isn't cruel and funny it doesn't really cut the cake for me.

The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.

Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.

Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it's marinated in humor.

The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

Humor is a show of both strength and of vulnerability: you are willing to make the first move but you are trusting in the response of your listener.

I have a great sense of humor, but it has an ironic twist to it.

Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.

My humor is very dry. To me it doesn't make sense.

Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...