Dunces Quote by Alexander Pope

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

— Neil Kinnock

One can have a wit, but not a witless

— Brandon Sanderson

Solving wits and puzzles, in a way, helps to develop wit and ingenuity.

— Shakuntala Devi

Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye…

— Jacques Barzun

Wit is the flower of the imagination.

— Livy

Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?

— George Eliot

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to…

— Jean de la Bruyere

A good wit will make use of anything.

— William Shakespeare

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they…

— Edward Young

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

— Ambrose Bierce

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel