| Citat |
Sagt av |
| Att en kritisk kvickhet är rolig bevisar inte att den är sann, men den visar ändå att den har tålt färden från reptilhjärnan till storhjärnan. | Mikal Rode |
| Denna världens mäktiga fruktar en träffande kvickhet mer än berg av analyserande krönikor I och det gör de rätt i. Kvickheten har nämligen en appell som ingen analys kan få. | Ole Thomsen |
| Spalten med roliga historier i en tidning är inte alltid den som redaktörerna tror. | Hanns-Hermann Kersten |
| Vid sidan av karikatyrer är kvickheter det verksammaste medlet att påverka opinionen. I form av en kvickhet för man också sådant vidare som man inte annars skulle vilja sprida. | Elisabeth Noëlle-Neumann |
| Wit is a treacherous dart. It is perhaps the only weapon with which it is possible to stab oneself in one's own back. | Geoffrey Bocca |
| Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes around a corner | Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) |
| Wit is the only wall between us and the dark. | Mark van Doren (1894-1972) |
| Wit must be foiled by wit : cut a diamond with a diamond | William Congreve (1670-1729) |
| Wit is far more often a shield than a lance | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Wit is cultured insolence. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| Wit is the epitaph of an emotion | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| The well of true wit is truth itself | George Meredith (1828-1909) |
| Wit: Intellect on a spree | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| Wit is the lowest form of humor. | Alexander Pope (1688-1744) |
| Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes around a corner | Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) |
| Great wits are sure to madness near allied - And thin partitions do their bounds divide | John Dryden (1631-1700) |
| Wit must be foiled by wit : cut a diamond with a diamond | William Congreve (1670-1729) |
| So vast is art, so narrow human wit. | Alexander Pope (1688-1744) |
| I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Wit is educated insolence. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Wit is the only wall between us and the dark. | Mark van Doren (1894-1972) |
| Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it. | G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| He thought he was a wit, and he was half right. | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike | Madame de Staël (1766-1817) |
| Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| A man may learn wit every day | Proverb |
| No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit." | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |