Sarcasm, often derided as the lowest form of wit, actually makes people brighter and more creative.
Even the lowest form of wit, after all, can sometimes pay its way in insight.
To Ambrose Bierce it was a "form of wit to which wise men stoop and fools aspire".
2/10 PH Sarcasm, as I'm sure you're well aware, is the lowest form of wit.
As Oscar Wilde believed, sarcasm may represent a lower form of wit, but we found that it certainly catalyses a higher form of thought".
It's a form of wit arguably lower even than sarcasm: toilet humour, the kind of scatological funnies beloved by young children, and, guiltily, everyone else.
The tight editing, which often cuts off a character in need of reassurance or enlightenment, is itself a form of wit.
Doyle Stevick Columbia, S.C., March 28 , 2009 To the Editor: The Op-Ed article about puns reminded me of my favorite: "They say that the pun is the lowest form of wit.
But now David Mitchell has stepped into the row, arguing that panel-based programmes offer a higher, spontaneous form of wit that sketch shows and scripted series often fail to match.
Naturally, as you can tell, I always knew this to be the case, and that the old saying – insult is too grand a term for it – that "sarcasm is the lowest form of wit" was the most elevated of nonsense.
