Advantage Quote by Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham

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

There's nothing like being in fashion. A man that has once got his character up for a wit is always sure of a laugh,…

— Washington Irving

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Walter Savage Landor

The well of true wit is truth itself.

— George Meredith

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

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 absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel