Pun Quotes
95 Pun quotes by 79 unique authors
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Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
— Fred Allen
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Coincidences are spiritual puns.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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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
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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
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I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
— Camryn Manheim
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Fozzie Bear has so many bear puns in this script - like, 'Trac is grizzly!' 'This is unbearable!' It's the greatest.
— Jason Segel
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A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.
— Oscar Levant
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
— Victor Hugo
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You're just gonna create somebody who is, I was gonna say, 'toying with his sexuality.' Pardon the pun.
— Christine O'Donnell
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I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
— Allan Sloan
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A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
— Doug Larson
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Puns are a form of humor with words.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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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
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I hate puns. And, I'm tired of pardoning them.
— Mark Lowry
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Roddenberry had his own utopian vision about he perfectibility of man, and I never really believed that. And I don’t think the show demonstrates that.…
— Nicholas Meyer
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I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
— Rachel Griffiths
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Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is also an idiomatic…
— Jessica Helfand
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The Greek makes the distinction between petros and petra simply because it is trying to preserve the pun, and in Greek the feminine petra could…
— Frank E. Gaebelein
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Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!
— Oscar Wilde
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Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys Hughes, filled with…
— T. E. D. Klein
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79 authors contributed a total of 95 Pun Quotes, led by these top contributors: