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Tag: humor, wit

Christopher Hitchens

Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.

Never be less interesting than your refrigerator magnets.

Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed, fingering my useless map.

JACK.I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.ALGERNON.We have.JACK.I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about?ALGERNON.The fools? Oh! about the clever people, of course.JACK.What fools!

Brandon Sanderson

Does the king know you’re back?””Nope! I’m trying to think of a properly dramatic way to inform him. Perhaps a hundred chasmfiends marching in unison, singing an ode to my magnificence.””That sounds… hard.””Yeah, the storming things have real trouble tuning their tonic chords and maintaining just intonation.””I have no idea what you just said.””Yeah, the storming things have real trouble tuning their tonic chords and maintaining just intonation.

Brandon Sanderson

This is a lot more satisfying,” he said, “when I have intelligent life whom I can render awed, rapt with attention for my clever verbosity.”The ugly lizard-crab-thing on the next rock over clicked its claw, an almost hesitant sound.”Your right, of course,” Wit said. “My usual audience isn’t particularly intelligent. That was also the obvious joke, however, so shame on you.

Terry Pratchett

There was a party of well-dressed people with Gilt, and as they progressed accoss the room the whole place began to revolve around the big man, gold being very dense and having a gravity all of its own.

Her face collapsed like a bad poem

Snark is a fabulous defense mechanism.

If life is a game… I need new dice!

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Only one English word adequately describes his transformation of the islands from worthless to priceless: magical.

…it is indeed a street of so impertinent a nature, so unfortunately connected with the great London and Oxford roads, and the principal inn of the city, that a day never passes in which parties of ladies, however important their business, whether in quest of pastry, millinery, or even (as in the present case) of young men, are not detained on one side or other by carriages, horsemen, or carts. This evil had been felt and lamented, at least three times a day, by Isabella since her residence in Bath…