Pun Quotes

95 quotes by 82 authors

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. — Fred Allen
Coincidences are spiritual puns. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. — Edgar Allan Poe
No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is opaque… — Fulton J. Sheen
This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much… — Lord Byron
I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended. — Camryn Manheim
Fozzie Bear has so many bear puns in this script - like, 'Trac is grizzly!' 'This is unbearable!' It's the greatest. — Jason Segel
A pun is the lowest form of humorâ€”when you don't think of it first. — Oscar Levant
There's a lot of me in Captain Jack and there's a lot of Captain Jack in me. And there is no pun intended. — John Barrowman
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 many humorous fantasy… — Jody Lynn Nye
I seem to be able to get away with pun strips if I add a panel at the end where I somehow indicate that I… — Stephan Pastis
For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among… — James Boswell
Puns are the droppings of soaring wits. — Victor Hugo
You're just gonna create somebody who is, I was gonna say, 'toying with his sexuality.' Pardon the pun. — Christine O'Donnell
I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way. — Allan Sloan
A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself. — Doug Larson
Puns are a form of humor with words. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the… — Adam Gopnik
I hate puns. And, I'm tired of pardoning them. — Mark Lowry
Roddenberry had his own utopian vision about he perfectibility of man, and I never really believed that. And I donâ€™t think the show demonstrates that.… — Nicholas Meyer

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