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Quotes About Witicism

Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will.
~ James McNeill Whistler
Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.
~ Jonathan Swift
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature -- the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Thy quips and thy quiddities.
~ William Shakespeare
The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
So why did you get shot? One of your witticisms go awry? (Nekoda)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit.
~ Hester Lynch Piozzi
You know, Ham," Breeze noted. "The only funny thing about your jokes is how often they lack any humor whatsoever." "You're only saying that because they usually involve you in the punch line." Breeze rolled his eyes.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Alejandro, who thought he was a wit. And he was, if you put a "nit" in front of it
~ Karen Chance
You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.' 'And yet it is still extremely funny.
~ Cecelia Ahern
You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
~ Cecelia Ahern
An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea. Churchill's response, Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.
~ Winston S. Churchill