True wit never made us laugh.

True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.

— Walter Savage Landor

True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find,…

— Alexander Pope

True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none.

— George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham

True wit has a grave intention.

— Mason Cooley

Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question,…

— Arthur Lynch

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

— Alexander Pope

True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.

— Alexander Pope

The well of true wit is truth itself.

— George Meredith

Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The finest wits have their sediment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson