WIT QUOTES II

quotations about wit


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Wit is usually thought rude by its victims.

GARY TAYLOR
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Moment by Moment by Shakespeare


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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.

ALEXANDER POPE

An Essay on Criticism

Tags: Alexander Pope


A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.

WILLIAM SHENSTONE

Essays on Men and Manners


My wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.

EDMOND ROSTAND

Cyrano de Bergerac


She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

"The Creative Impulse", Collected Short Stories

Tags: W. Somerset Maugham


Brevity is the soul of wit.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Hamlet

Tags: William Shakespeare


I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Henry IV, Part II


Those who object to wit are envious of it.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims

Tags: William Hazlitt


The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

FRANCIS BACON

Essex's Device

Tags: Francis Bacon


He depended on his mother wit to get him out of any scrape his father ignorance got him into.

STRICKLAND GILLILAN

attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes


When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

CRISS JAMI

Killosophy


Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans

Tags: Walter Savage Landor


The effect of wit is sometimes so sudden that it almost amounts to a concussion, and most generally excites a disposition to laughter.

HORACE PETERS BIDDLE

A Few Poems


Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude


How every fool can play upon a word! I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence; and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Merchant of Venice


That wit is truly amiable, which gladdens and enlivens every thing, which shines with a lustre gentle, but not faint, and powerful, but not glaring.

JEREMIAH SEED

Discourses on Several Important Subjects


Wit resembles a coquette; those who the most eagerly run after it are the least favored.

JOSEPH CHENIER

attributed, Day's Collacon


A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

GEORGE MEREDITH

Diana of the Crossways


Some of the wit is clumsy and coarse. But sometimes it takes a blunt instrument to make a point.

DAVID PARKINSON

"Catfight Review", Empire Online, March 10, 2017


The well of true wit is truth itself.

GEORGE MEREDITH

Diana of the Crossways

Tags: George Meredith