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Wit Quotes by Jane Austen
- One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
- Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
- It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most…
- I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a 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
- If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. — Francis Bacon
- 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
- He is a heavy eater of beef. Me thinks it doth harm to his wit. — William Shakespeare