Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.
Wit is educated insolence.
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.
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.