Laughter Quote by Joseph Roth

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

— A.A. Gill

“I remember stating that humour was the poor cousin of wit and at best it was the whetstone on which wit sharpened itself –…

— Catherine Cookson

“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

“There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we…

— Jean-Dominique Bauby

“In a theater, it happened that a fire started offstage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke…

— Anonymous

“I went to school to be a comedian. I was always cracking jokes in class. And after they were cracked, the teacher would try…

— Jarod Kintz

“The world might be vicious and treacherous and deadly, but it couldn’t kill laughter. Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things…

— Jim Butcher

“The bubbly play of wit, the chesty laughs, the resonant voices of men when glass in hand they shut the grey world outside and…

— Jack London

“There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”

— Dorothy Parker

“I want to laugh one of those strange, high-pitched, delusional laughs that signals the end of a person's sanity. Because this world, I think,…

— Tehereh Mafi Unravel Me

“but laugh, laugh, laugh, because if you ever stop laughing, it might just tear you apart”

— Neal Shusterman

“You have this maddening little smile sometimes, like you've just thought of something incredibly witty but are afraid to say it in case no…

— Robyn Schneider