Intellect Quote by Charles Lamb

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted…

— James Boswell

Puns are a form of humor with words.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

— John Oliver

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

— Doug Larson

We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at…

— Harriet Hosmer

The goodness of the true pun is in direct ratio to its intolerability

— Edgar Allan Poe

A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.

— Oscar Levant

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It…

— Karl Kraus

In our world, all puns are beautiful and they are the highest form of comedy.

— Greg Proops

The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its…

— Arthur Smith