wit Quotes

I don't bite you know ... unless it's called for.

The secret to humor is surprise.

The key to humor is surprising people.

Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

Cleverness is a refined way of being rude.

Wit is well-bred insolence.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Wit is educated insolence.

"When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth."