Wit And Humor Quotes

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.

Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

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I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Wit and humor seem to always factor into this - there's a tongue-in-cheek tone you get when you take on a formalist story - because there's an inherent voice you're trying to copy (and often to satirize).

It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humor, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far, that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule.

Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.