Friendship Quote by Washington Irving

Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and…

— Washington Irving

“I remember stating that humour was the poor cousin of wit and at best it was the whetstone on which wit sharpened itself –…

— Catherine Cookson

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

— A.A. Gill

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

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes…

— Washington Irving

Humor is the pensiveness of wit.

— Robert Aris Willmott

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

— Stan Laurel

It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of…

— Richard Steele

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

“My intellect, my wit—I’d forgotten I’d even possessed them, and they were dull and neglected, to be sure. But in the company of others…

— Melanie Benjamin

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 is the lowest form of humor.

— Alexander Pope