Alcohol Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Margaret Cavendish

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

True wit never made us laugh.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.

— Henry Fielding

Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.

— Samuel Beckett

It was nice that you guys have such a good sense of humor, because some people don't have the ability to laugh at something.

— Owen Wilson

Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in…

— George Herbert

More people laugh at us than with us, however it may appear at the moment.

— Giovanni Ruffini

We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it... that people engaged…

— Alice Lowe

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

— A.A. Gill

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless…

— Anonymous