Accidents Quote by William Hazlitt

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

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

— Stan Laurel

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

Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere…

— Mark Twain

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

— Peggy Noonan

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

— Tom Robbins

Humor is the pensiveness of wit.

— Robert Aris Willmott

Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

— Stephen Leacock

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

— James Thurber

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

— Alexander Pope

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