Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

— Oscar Wilde

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one

— Walter Savage Landor

Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.

— Walter Savage Landor

A city (Paris) where great ideas perish, done to death by a witticism.

— Honore De Balzac

“...it's unsportsmanlike to engage in a battle of wits with anyone who is obviously unarmed.”

— Lilian Jackson Braun

“The lads I've met in cupid's deadlock Were - shall we say? - born out of wedlock”

— Dorothy Parker

“That was the problem with snide comments; they invariably lost all their punch on repetition. Besides, when facing impending death, what did the odd…

— Lauren Willig

As H.L. Mencken once said, 'nobody ever when broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.' Our show [All in the Family] countered that…

— Norman Lear

A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.

— Jean de la Bruyere

If you are a stand-up you can hone your material over successive performances, based on the audience response. Changing a single word or altering…

— Richard Herring

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

— Ambrose Bierce

If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.

— Larry Wall

“No exceptions to exceptions!”

— Raheel Farooq

“But this small episode is as good an illustration as any of the hazards of uttering witticisms. By the very nature of a witticism,…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel