Pun Quotes

“Loki, who put the con in conniving.”

— Rick Riordan

“Homo Cannot Erectus”

— Adham T. Fusama

Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!

— Oscar Wilde

“A pun is its own reword.”

— Valerie Estelle Frankel

“Safari, so goody.”

— Winston S. Churchill

I'm shameless, and I love a pun. There's a lot of Beth puns.

— Beth Ditto

People, if you can't get through the puns, I can't give you the good stuff.

— Jon Stewart

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

— Dorothy Parker

Always say 'no pun intended' to draw attention to the intended pun.

— Teju Cole

Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

— Ambrose Bierce

A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.

— Oscar Levant

Heifer cow is better than none, but this is no time for puns

— Groucho Marx

It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop.

— Anonymous

I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on…

— Chris O'Dowd

Here's the way I look at it. President Bush has uranium-tipped bunker busters and I have puns. I think he'll be OK.

— Jon Stewart

In our world, all puns are beautiful and they are the highest form of comedy.

— Greg Proops

I'll take Shadowhunter, then. Because from what I've experienced of vampires, you mostly suck. No pun intended.

— Cassandra Clare

“Would I laugh?" "Matter of fact, you would," says Zeb. "Heart like shale. What you need is a good fracking.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Thatsh prieshts for you,” said the old man wetly. “Nothing by torc, torc, torc.”

— Terry Pratchett

John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun…

— Jeremy Piven

“So one might say that music killed him, that he was felled by music. It's a theory. String theory.”

— Emma Richler

There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is…

— Antonio Damasio

Standing, I turned to face my father. “It’s the same as the scent on Moore. It’s definitely a foreign cat, but it’s...more,…

— Rachel Vincent

I can be really silly when I'm not actually writing silliness, and I have to rein that in. Pynchon, in my opinion,…

— Mary Kay Zuravleff

I had imagined I would come back at some point. But yeah, that was for a very specific reason. I will be…

— Joss Whedon

Maybe because English is my second language, maybe I just translate mundane clichés from the Welsh language and they sound original in…

— Gruff Rhys

The Greek makes the distinction between petros and petra simply because it is trying to preserve the pun, and in Greek the…

— Frank E. Gaebelein

“He hit and fatally injured my innocent and unfortunate uncle whose muttered last words in hospital, before his coma became a full…

— Iain Banks

I believe in reincarnation,” [Bjorn] said. I KNOW. “I tried to live a good life. Does that help?” THAT’S NOT UP TO…

— Terry Pratchett

I think at some point [Big Pun] really wanted to be a singer as well. He would call me at 3 or…

— Tony Sunshine

“She only modelled for him once,' Max said stubbornly, leaning the canvases back against the wall and replacing the sheet. 'Once, twice…

— Robert Goddard

I often reflect on what an extraordinary time (pun intended) it is to be alive here in the beginning of the twenty-first…

— Bill Nye

No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this…

— Fulton J. Sheen

But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it.…

— Terry Pratchett

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides…

— Arthur Koestler

The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for…

— Thomas Pynchon

Zeus Is Dead is full of laugh-out-loud moments, lashings of sly wit, moan-worthy puns, and a complex, fast-paced storyline. There aren't very…

— Jody Lynn Nye

The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Obviously I struck gold with 'Deadwood.' No pun intended.

— Jim Beaver

In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.

— Verne Troyer