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

    People   Luck   Enemy  
    LadyWindermere's Fan act 1 (1892)
  • For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

    Leigh Hunt (1856). “Selections from the English poets”
  • 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.

    Men   Light   May  
    Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.440
  • Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow is a marvel, deftly examining the connections between art and everyday life. Andy Sturdevant's lively, unique inquiries into trust fund kids, co-opted flags, gubernatorial portraits, art in second-tier cities, and Upper Midwestern esoterica, brim with both wit and humor.

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

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

    Funny   Life   Happiness  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Humor   Erotic   Speech  
  • I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

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

    Funny   Mothers Day   Mom  
    The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895). The same lines appear, as a dialogue between Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Allonby, in A Woman of No Importance, act 2 (1893).
  • Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

    Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing
  • I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

    Funny   Sarcastic   Witty  
    In Saturday Review 25 Aug. 1962
  • Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

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

    Book   Beer   Self  
  • The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

    "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)
  • Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1867). “Don Quixote”, p.316
  • Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.86, Harvard University Press
  • Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.

    Source: classic.esquire.com
  • 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).

    Voice   Trying   Tongue  
    Source: www.raintaxi.com
  • When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

    Funny   Life   Depression  
    Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.31, Courier Corporation
  • My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

  • 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.

    Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.84, Courier Corporation
  • Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor.

    Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.
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