Comedy Quote by Frank Muir

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

— Tom Robbins

Humor is the pensiveness of wit.

— Robert Aris Willmott

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

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

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

— Peggy Noonan

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

— Stan Laurel

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

— Alexander Pope

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

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

— A.A. Gill

Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point…

— James Thurber

Humor is wit and love.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see,…

— Victor Borge