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Tag Name "Witticism" (12)

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Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
Ambrose Bierce
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A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.
Jean de la Bruyere
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One should have wit, but not wish to have it otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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When Harel wished to put a joke or witticism into circulation, he was in the habit of connecting it with some celebrated name, on the chance of reclaiming it if it took. Thus he assigned to Talleyrand, in the Nain Jaune, the phrase, Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Louis Edouard Fournier
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He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.
Voltaire
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Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
Walter Savage Landor
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I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.
Flann O'Brien
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Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got eight-year-olds working ninety hours a week to deliver you that kind of top-quality witticism? There are boy bands with more original material.
John Green
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
Larry Wall
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An epigram is a flashlight of a truth a witticism, truth laughing at itself.
Minna Antrim
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Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one
Walter Savage Landor
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A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.
William Shenstone