Wit Quotes
1284 quotes by 805 authors
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
— Alexander Pope
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The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
— Agnes Repplier
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An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.
— Baltasar Gracian
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I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.
— John Lyly
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There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle…
— Joseph Addison
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A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another.
— Lord Chesterfield
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
— Hippocrates
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The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of…
— William Hazlitt
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The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Your highest female grace is silence.
— Ben Jonson
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Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
— George Meredith
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To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give.
— Tristan Bernard
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Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet to run amok and tilt at all I meet.
— Alexander Pope
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It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.
— George D. Prentice
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Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.
— Albert Einstein
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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
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The heart of a statesman should be in his head.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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