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Wit Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
- There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am…
- 'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend…
- If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know…
- Don't set your wit against a child.
- We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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