In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned – or the very brilliant – dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person’s work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
Solving wits and puzzles, in a way, helps to develop wit and ingenuity.
Don’t fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially if the phrase is at someone else’s expense.
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.
The Sarajevans have a very particular world view – a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and… truckloads of guts, you know.
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
