Wit Quotes

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A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be… — Isaac D'Israeli
Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an… — Samuel Johnson
The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits. — George D. Prentice
What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit. — William Shakespeare
Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge. — Plato
Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip. — Louis Kronenberger
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations. — Maurice Chevalier
If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know… — Jonathan Swift
Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet… — Charles Caleb Colton
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue. — Charles Caleb Colton
To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise. — Saadi
It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny… — Lord Chesterfield
Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh… — Lord Chesterfield
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool. — Alexander Pope
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit. — Euripides
Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And… — Euripides
True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another. — Walter Savage Landor
Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things. — Sophocles
Wit and wisdom are born with a man. — John Selden

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