• There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

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  Dorothy Parker

  WriterAmerican1893 · 19th century

  3.4 · 44 votes · 116 reads

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• To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

  

  André Maurois

  WriterFrench1885 · 19th century

  5.0 · 16 votes · 79 reads

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• True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.7 · 27 votes · 127 reads

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• Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.7 · 59 votes · 188 reads

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• Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

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  Dorothy Parker

  WriterAmerican1893 · 19th century

  4.5 · 48 votes · 121 reads

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• Wit is educated insolence.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.2 · 13 votes · 54 reads

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• Wit is more often a shield than a lance.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 60 votes · 117 reads

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• Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  3.8 · 42 votes · 73 reads

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• Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.6 · 12 votes · 36 reads

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• Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.8 · 45 votes · 97 reads

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• Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.2 · 11 votes · 1 reads

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• 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

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.7 · 13 votes · 182 reads

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

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.2 · 46 votes · 94 reads

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• You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

  

  Peter Abelard

  TheologianFrench1079 · 11th century

  5.0 · 24 votes · 99 reads

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