Differences Quote by Robert Benton

I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response.

— Fran Lebowitz

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.

— Colin Quinn

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

— Stephen Bayley

Taste has nothing to do with style.

— Robert Benton

Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Comedy taste changes. It only changes slightly, but there's always a different angle, a different attitude.

— Ronnie Corbett

Styles in wit change so.

— Lillian Hellman

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

— Frank Muir

Taste in comedy, like fashion, changes all the time.

— Steve Carell

Style tells you a lot more about the truth than substance, because it comes at the truth in an oblique way, it comes in…

— Robert Benton

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

— Stan Laurel