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Wit Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
- Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet to run amok and tilt at all I meet.
- True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
- What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the…
- You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
- 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.
- There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
- But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
- Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
- I have more zeal than wit.
- Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
- If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
- For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
- 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…
- So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
- A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
- Wit is the lowest form of humor.
- Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
- There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
- One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
More Wit Quotes
- Wit is educated insolence. — Aristotle
- One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. — Jane Austen
- Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than… — Joseph Addison
- Like a sprained ankle boy I aint nothin to play wit — Drake
- At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament,… — John Donne
- Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. — Francis Bacon
- I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems… — Alton Brown