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Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

Wisdom Humor Evil Serious

I think we are moving to that place where we are being celebrated for our character, our inside, our wit. I think that's the direction we should go because that's what defines you as a person, not a number on a scale.

Character You Think Place

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Soul Body Whole Brevity

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

People Genius Literature Being

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

Beauty Power Who Give

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

Treat Never Like Spread

And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, 'Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.'

You People Government Live

My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs.

Stephen Colbert

Brother Competition Long Child

Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially if the phrase is at someone else's expense.

Love Hope You Fall

One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been, I probably wouldn't have wanted to translate it. There are no one-liners. It's much more a truthful comedy than a play of dazzling wit.

Comedy Play Heroes More

Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.

Secret Things Inspiration Inventions

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Best Being Next Witty

I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me - I want him to be authentic.

Love Good Men Man

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

Jean de la Bruyere

Sad Men Speak Well

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

Jean de la Bruyere

Book Like Clock More

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

Enough Too Much Avoid Witty

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

Limit Laws Ear Intellect

Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - the rust of the soul, a plague, a hell itself.

Soul Mind Hell Body

The well of true wit is truth itself.

George Meredith

Truth True Well Itself

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

Truth Humor Exaggeration

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.

William H. Seward

Nature Men Law Property

If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?

You Humor Saying Sense Of Humor

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

You Honesty Fool Will

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

Madame de Stael

Difference Things Lies Which

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

Madame de Stael

Difference Things Knowing Alike

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

Easy Hard Irreverence

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