Dark Quote by Alexander Pope

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless…

— Anonymous

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless…

— Philip Dormer Stanhope

Men of superior vivacity and wit, when they take a wrong turn, are generally worse than other men: because wit, consisting in a lively…

— Jeremiah Seed

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

— George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

— Benjamin Franklin

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

— John Selden

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

— Walter Savage Landor

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

Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy…

— Charles Caleb Colton

That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and…

— King James I

There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Words may show a man's wit, actions his meaning.”

— Benjamin Franklin