Wit

Famous quotes containing the word wit:

“There’s a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

“Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)