Pun Quote by Tim Vine Download Open image “If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.” — Tim Vine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pun You
Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The goodness of the true pun is in direct ratio to its intolerability — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative. — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels. — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
I'd like to start with the chimney jokes - I've got a stack of them. The first one is on the house. — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
My friend told me he was going to a fancy dress party as an Italian island. I said to him, ‘Don’t be Sicily’. — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
I was in this restaurant and I asked for something herby. They gave me a Volkswagen with no driver. — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.' — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
My mate asked me "What do you think of voluntary work?" I said "I wouldn't do it if you paid me." — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red. — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
You see my next door neighbour worships exhaust pipes, he's a catholic converter. — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity… — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
So I went in to a pet shop. I said, "Can I buy a goldfish?" The guy said, "Do you want an aquarium?" I… — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at… — Harriet Hosmer Copy Share Image
No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
A pun, like champagne, loses its sparkle when too long drawn out. Its flash is its savor. — Harriet Hosmer Copy Share Image
You're just gonna create somebody who is, I was gonna say, 'toying with his sexuality.' Pardon the pun. — Christine O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“He hit and fatally injured my innocent and unfortunate uncle whose muttered last words in hospital, before his coma became a full stop, were:… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
