Death Quote by Lauren Willig

“Ironically, some of the most foolish, prejudiced comments made were the ones by wits and grumps trying to impress others with their brains.”

— Criss Jami

“Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“There are no fools so troublesome as those that have wit.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well…

— C.S. Lewis

“We ought never to lose our tempers with people who, when we find them at fault, begin to snigger. They do so not because…

— Marcel Proust

“A cultivated wit, one that badgers less, can persuade all the more. Artful ridicule can address contentious issues more competently and vigorously than can…

— Horace

“Somebody cracks a joke, a whole row laughs, one witticism sets off another, and, like matches, they flare up and burn down.”

— Joseph Roth

“He assumed a manner that could be called circular irony. Everything he said, he said in quotes, with an artificial, exaggerated emphasis, and with…

— Stanisław Lem

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

— Ambrose Bierce

“What's dangerous in the hands of the multitudes, he said, with what may or may not have been irony, is safe enough for those…

— Margaret Atwood

“...-not only did he deplore the waste of words, he detested the moral lassitude with which they were wasted. To him, in whose throat…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“The problem, he thought, was that so much humour involved misfortune of one sort or another, and now that same human misfortune was out…

— Alexander McCall Smith