Comedy Quote by Tom Lehrer

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

— Tom Lehrer

Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.

— William Shenstone

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

— Anonymous

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The well of true wit is truth itself.

— George Meredith

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and…

— King James I

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one

— Walter Savage Landor

It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

— William Penn