Pun Quotes

It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.

For one thing, I don't pun excessively in real life.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

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 the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

Putting your hands in the earth is very grounding, if you'll excuse the pun.

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

We're all well-acquainted with depression, we all know what the low moods are, but the mania was not something I knew much about. I didn't know that it would make someone dress extravagantly or start to pun, and to stay up and drink.

If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

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