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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.
- True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That…
- Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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
- The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. — Avicenna
- If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. — Francis Bacon
- The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. — Francis Bacon
- Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. — Ambrose Bierce
- Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting… — Bono
- Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you… — Geraldine Brooks
- I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems… — Alton Brown
- I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other… — Carrie Brownstein
- It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues. — Jean de la Bruyere