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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

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

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

— Walter Savage Landor

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 absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

— Agnes Repplier

Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit…

— Agnes Repplier

Wit is the flower of the imagination.

— Livy

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel