Advantage Quote by Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

The well of true wit is truth itself.

— George Meredith

Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.

— Stephen Fry

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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 makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham

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

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 is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.

— Samuel Johnson