(27 quotes found)
“Puns are the droppings of soaring wits”
Victor Hugo
“Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Coincidences are spiritual puns.”
G. K. Chesterton
“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.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Puns are little 'plays on words' that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead.”
Dave Barry
“Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.”
Louis Untermeyer
“It [a pun] is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.”
Charles Lamb
“Brothers do not do that to their family members, and he knew that the only thing Pun left behind was his kids. Even if Joe didn't like his wife, he could help out the kids -- he could have definitely done that,”
Cuban Link
“The irony of the pot calling the kettle black. Where's the pun in that?”
Rain Bojangles
“Pardon the pun, but you really do get a bird's eye view from up there.”
Judy Walker
