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“A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ Survey the whole nor seek slight faults…

— Alexander Pope

Wit and judgment often are at strife.

— Alexander Pope

“A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ; Survey the WHOLE, nor seek slight faults…

— Alexander Pope

Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.

— William Shenstone

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

— Voltaire

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

— Alexander Pope

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

I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a…

— Alexander Pope

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

— William Congreve

Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

— W. Somerset Maugham