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Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike

— Madame De Stael

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

— Madame de Stael

Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.

— Madame de Stael

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

— Dorothy Parker

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Wit is the flower of the imagination.

— Livy

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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