Exaggeration Quote by Stan Laurel Download Open image “Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.” — Stan Laurel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exaggeration Humor Truth Wit
Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else.… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
You can't pretend to be witty because wit is dry, subtle, lacerating, cynical, elitist, and risque - all impossible to fake. Humor, on the… — Florence King Copy Share Image
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Personally, I think the silent films were more effective for L&H, but the sound was of great value in enhancing the effects - dialog… — Stan Laurel Copy Share Image
Sight gags had to be planned; they required timing and mechanics. Occasionally, spontaneity would arise in the shooting of the scenes. — Stan Laurel Copy Share Image
Babe and I are both great television fans, and we've been planning to do something on TV. But we certainly never intended to start… — Stan Laurel Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks 'Modern Times' has got a big message is just putting it there himself. Charlie knew that the pressures of modern life… — Stan Laurel Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't have the… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Fuck anybody who’d call a hill a mountain and name it after themselves.” — A.D. Aliwat Copy Share Image
Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a light which… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the… — Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Copy Share Image
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all. — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
“That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take out that stuff about… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation,… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
