Humor Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You need not laugh; 'tis perfectly true.

— Patrice Kindl

I may not be perfectly witty, I may not be perfectly wonderful, I may not be perfectly wise, but I am always perfectly me.

— Anonymous

Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

— Dorothy Parker

Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.

— Margot Asquith

There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.

— Michel de Montaigne

A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.

— Renata Adler

New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

— James Agate