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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
Puns are a form of humor with words.
A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.
Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
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.
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.