Enough Quote by Larry Wall

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

— Phaedrus

I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.

— Flann O'Brien

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

— Michael Leunig

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

— Dorothy Parker

Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.

— Walter Savage Landor

One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.

— Samuel Johnson

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one

— Walter Savage Landor

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

— Oscar Wilde

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

— Edward Abbey

“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