Down and Quote by Diana Vreeland

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever.

— Diana Vreeland

You can't pretend to be witty because wit is dry, subtle, lacerating, cynical, elitist, and risque - all impossible to fake. Humor, on the…

— Florence King

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people…

— Robert Benton

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

— James Thurber

It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of…

— Richard Steele

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

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

Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in…

— George Herbert

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

Humor is the pensiveness of wit.

— Robert Aris Willmott

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

— Dylan Moran

I think I hang out with some pretty witty people, but we're never that funny.

— Bobcat Goldthwait