A Quote by Alexander Pope
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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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.
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
You know, Gilan, sarcasm isn't the lowest form of wit. It's not even wit at all." -Halt
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.
You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.' 'And yet it is still extremely funny.
Sarcasim is the lowest form of humor.
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.
I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response.
A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.
A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
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.
They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said. China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.
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.
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