Pun Quotes - page 2

I don't know who invented the high heel, but all women owe him a lot. Excuse the pun, but it was the high heel that gave a big lift to my own career. (Marilyn Monroe)
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 know it's a bad pun. View quote
Stephan Pastis
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. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion. View quote
Martin Gore
James Joyce, in his novel Finnegans Wake, in 1939, punned on the word "Hindoo” (as the British used to spell it), joking that it came from the names of two Irishmen, Hin-nessy and Doo-ley: "This is the hindoo Shimar Shin between the dooley boy and the hinnessy. View quote
Wendy Doniger
It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop. View quote
Arthur Baer
The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness. View quote
Arthur Smith
I'm shameless, and I love a pun. There's a lot of Beth puns. View quote
Beth Ditto
John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous. View quote
Jeremy Piven
Obviously I struck gold with Deadwood. No pun intended. View quote
Jim Beaver
Taking the time to polish a pun or fine-tune a practical joke is a way of saying, 'I'm thinking about you and I want to please you.' (Andrew Hudgins)
It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it. View quote
Hannah Cowley
Putting your hands in the earth is very grounding, if you'll excuse the pun. View quote
John Glover
If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac. View quote
Tim Vine
For one thing, I don't pun excessively in real life. View quote
Tim Vine
If Judith Leyster had not been in the habit of signing her work with the monogram JL attached to a star, a pun on the name her father had taken from his brewery, Leyster or Lodestar, her works might never have been reattributed to her. View quote
Germaine Greer
Los vampiros," she whispered. "Oh God, not the bloody vampires again," said Magnus. "No pun intended. View quote
Cassandra Clare
One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that. View quote
St. Vincent (musician)
A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. View quote
John Dennis
A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. View quote
James Boswell
There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is that contrary to what many people seem to think, taking it at face value - sorry for the pun - we do not give the same amount of emotional significance to every event. (António Damásio)
The forces going on in the society are not things the media can prevent or change. But we can and should help understand this crisis and warn against false solutions. If feelings are trumping arguments - the pun is fully intended - it doesn't mean that arguments don't still have to be made. It may not win the news cycle. It may not even win this election cycle. But it's a critical task. View quote
Andrew Sullivan
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 better, for study is the last pursuit of the society the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description. View quote
Lord Byron
A pun is the lowest form of humor - when you don't think of it first. View quote
Oscar Levant
I heard someone on the news say, well, "tragedy has visited this church”. This wasn't a tornado. This was a racist. This was a guy with a Rhodesia badge on his sweater. You know, I hate to even use this pun, but this one is black and white. There's no nuance here. And we're gonna keep pretending like "I don't get it, what happened, there's one guy who lost his mind”, but we are steeped in that culture in this country and we refuse to recognize it. View quote
Jon Stewart