Claims Quote by Harriet Hosmer

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

— John Oliver

There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a…

— Joseph Addison

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

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

Humor is the pensiveness of wit.

— Robert Aris Willmott

Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

— Ambrose Bierce

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather…

— Charles Lamb

Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question,…

— Arthur Lynch

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, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humour is the oil and…

— Washington Irving

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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

— Dorothy Parker