Acid Quote by Washington Irving

“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

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

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

— Stan Laurel

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

— Alexander Pope

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

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

— Ambrose Bierce

Humor is the pensiveness of wit.

— Robert Aris Willmott

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

— Agnes Repplier

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

— William Hazlitt

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to…

— Jean de la Bruyere