Clever Quote by Ambrose Bierce

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

— Walter Savage Landor

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

“I had become wiser, I tried to find out what irony really is, and discovered that some ancient writer on poetry had spoken of…

— Robertson Davies

Humor is the pensiveness of wit.

— Robert Aris Willmott

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

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

“A joke is a witticism or play on words that’s meant to be funny. I say ‘meant to be’ because most jokes aren’t funny.…

— Michael Monroe

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

— Don Herold

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing,…

— James Thurber

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

— James Thurber

“The definition of wit is a joke that doesn't make you laugh.”

— A.A. Gill