Character Quote by Denis Diderot

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty

— Dylan Moran

If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

— Stendhal

My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so…

— Anne Lamott

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

— Horace Mann

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

— Andre Maurois

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that islandare pedants.…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered how wonderfully…

— Henry Fielding

The art of conversation consists far less in displaying much wit oneself than in helping others to be witty: the man who leaves your…

— Jean de la Bruyere

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