Sometimes Twitter provides the best means for procrastination and is often a rich treasure trove of hilarity. This is one of those times. So you don’t have to trawl through a bunch of boring tweets about what someone is having for their lunch just to get a giggle out of a pun further down, we have collected 10 of the funniest literary quips there.
Readers can be some of the funniest, punniest, most comical tweeters around, just take a look…
1.
Ophelia - drowned
— The English Major (@Audenary) 5 October 2016
Juliet - stabs herself to death
Cordelia - murdered
Desdemona - murdered by husband
Cleopatra - kills herself with snake https://t.co/1AdzQCVmBz
3.
Not to brag, but I sigh as deeply and frequently as the average heroine in a Jane Austen novel.
— Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman) 25 September 2015
4.
Dante followed Virgil down, past killers and adulterers. "And here," Virgil said "are the makers of websites that automatically play audio."
— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) 5 August 2014
5.
@XplodingUnicorn @SohlerSarah pic.twitter.com/KAydaoRLRI
— The Dapper Breamer™ (@Loricatus_Lupus) 26 July 2015
6.
I'm gonna write a book about the difficulties of watching Pride and Prejudice dubbed into French. It will be called L'Austen Translation
— Greg Jenner (@greg_jenner) 21 October 2013
7.
Dickens: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
— Andy Ryan (@ItsAndyRyan) 24 August 2016
Schrödinger: Nice, nice
8.
When someone talks shit about Edgar Allen Poe pic.twitter.com/T01qGlvgPq
— danielle (@fletcherxshears) 29 March 2016
When you see the bitches who talked shit about Poe irl pic.twitter.com/9moWTUKuX1
— danielle (@fletcherxshears) 7 April 2016
9.
Gatsby? He says he was great. I don't know. People are saying maybe not so great. I'll make Gatsby great again. #trumpbookreport
— Brian Francis (@briandfrancis) 20 October 2016
10.
The Great G@sby #RuinaNovelwithSocialMedia
— Ilana Turner (@itoverdrive) 24 September 2015
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