id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3291 Wit - Wikipedia .html text/html 943 186 72 Wit Wikipedia Wit is a form of intelligent humour, the ability to say or write things that are clever and usually funny. [1] Someone witty is a person who is skilled at making clever and funny remarks.[1][2] Forms of wit include the quip, repartee, and wisecrack. Forms[edit] Wit in poetry is characteristic of metaphysical poetry as a style, and was prevalent in the time of English playwright Shakespeare, who admonished pretension with the phrase "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit".[4] It may combine word play with conceptual thinking, as a kind of verbal display requiring attention, without intending to be laugh-aloud funny; in fact wit can be a thin disguise for more poignant feelings that are being versified. Oxford Wits Wit (play) Wit (film) Wikiquote has quotations related to: Wit Comedy of humours Musical theatre Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3291.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3291.txt