Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Puns are the highest form of literature." I don't know if I can agree with that, but let's just say I love great puns. Heck, I once accidentally walked into an optional statistics lecture I hadn't originally intended to attend, but stayed because I found out the title of the lecture was "What Is The Probability That This Statistics Course Matters?"
If you love puns, then I am pleased to make you smile with this list of my favorite literary puns. I think you will be "Thoreau"-ly impressed.
1. Honestly, everyone should just leave writing poetry to the prose.
2. What do you get when you mix alcohol and literature? Tequila mockingbird!
3. Bronte? She's like a breath of fresh Eyre.
4. Why is John Milton terrible to invite to game night? Because when he's around, there's a pair of dice lost.
5. What happened when past, present, and future walked into a bar? It was tense.
6. Here's a riddle... Voldemort.
7. Never read Fitzgerald? You Gatsby kidding me!
8. Which dinosaur knows a lot of synonyms? Thesaurus.
9. What makes "Civil Disobedience" such a great essay? Thoreau editing.
10. Why are writers always cold? Because they're always surrounded by drafts.
11. You had me at Othello.
12. Why did the book get thinner? It had its appendix removed.
13. You were reading and then you saw a bird? Cool story, Poe.
14. What do you say to comfort an English major? Their, they're, there.
15. Why is a book's plot so important? It builds character.
16. What did the period say to the sentence? We better stop now!
17. What do pregnant women and apostrophes have in common? They're prone to contractions.
18. Hyperbole is without a doubt the single greatest thing in the universe.
19. E.B. White's Charlotte was the original web blogger.
20. Is there a pond on the animal farm, Orwell?
I hope you thought these puns were pretty lit.