American people Quote by Norman Lear

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

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Walter Savage Landor

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

— Madame de Stael

Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

— Margaret Cavendish

He thought he was a wit, and he was half right.

— Anonymous

There is certainly a higher percentage of wit in British comedy than in American comedy. What always tickles me is the way in which…

— Christopher Lloyd

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

— Ambrose Bierce

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

— Maya Angelou

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

— Flann O'Brien

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

— Douglass North

In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that islandare pedants.…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.

— Christian Nestell Bovee