A Quote by John Flanagan

You know, Gilan, sarcasm isn't the lowest form of wit. It's not even wit at all." -Halt

John Flanagan

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Even Form Halt Know Lowest Sarcasm Wit

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John Flanagan
Australian - Author
Born: May 22, 1944

You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.' 'And yet it is still extremely funny.

Cecelia Ahern

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

Oscar Wilde

They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said. China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.

Derek Landy

By wit we search divine aspect above, By wit we learn what secrets science yields, By wit we speak, by wit the mind is rul'd, By wit we govern all our actions; Wit is the loadstar of each human thought, Wit is the tool by which all things are wrought.

Robert Greene

Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.

James Thurber

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

John Oliver

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Alexander Pope

Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.

Agnes Repplier

Most of you probably didn't know that I have a new book out. Some guy put together a collection of my wit and wisdom - or, as he calls it, my accidental wit and wisdom. But I'm kind of proud that my words are already in book form.

George W. Bush

It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.

Stanislaw I Leszczynski

Would you trust him with your life, Halt?" Gilan interrupted, and Halt looked up at him. "Yes," he said quietly. Gilan patted his shoulder once more. "Then trust him with his own," he said simply.

John Flanagan

The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing but greatness; the good man pities them both, if with greatness or wit they have not virtue.

Jean de la Bruyere

Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question, a flash that lights up a situation. Wit suggests the delicate but delightful play of a rapier in the hands of a master.