Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
James Thurber

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Henry Fielding

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.
John Stuart Blackie

Don't set your wit against a child.
Jonathan Swift

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
Stendhal

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
James Boswell

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
Sophocles

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.
Antoine Rivarol

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.
Harry Hay

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
William Shakespeare

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
James Boswell

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
William Wycherley

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.
Anthony Hope

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
Paul McCartney

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.
James Humes

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.
John Zorn

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.
Chris Cooper

I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled.
Janice Dickinson