Wit Quotes

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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife. — Charles Caleb Colton
Those who object to wit are envious of it. — William Hazlitt
Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated. — William Hazlitt
Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours'… — William Hazlitt
Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference. — William Hazlitt
One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it. — John Dryden
Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface… — John Dryden
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ. — John Dryden
The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter. — Bill Vaughan
Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser… — Ben Jonson
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats… — Ben Jonson
Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. — Alexander Pope
If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn? — Alexander Pope
For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. — Alexander Pope
Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments… — Alexander Pope
Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state. — John Selden
From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Silence is the wit of fools. — Anatole France
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning. — Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. — Benjamin Franklin

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