Artificial Quote by Agnes Repplier

Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere…

— Mark Twain

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

— Peggy Noonan

Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else.…

— William Hazlitt

Humor is the pensiveness of wit.

— Robert Aris Willmott

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more…

— William Hazlitt

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

— Tom Robbins

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

— Frank Muir

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

— Stan Laurel

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.

— Samuel Johnson

Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question,…

— Arthur Lynch