A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
Avoid witicisms at the expense of others.
Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
He's winding up the watch of his wit. By and by it will strike.
Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.
The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
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.
Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.