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Wit Quotes by Joseph Addison
- Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
- There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are…
- 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…
- In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee,…
- A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.
- Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity
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… — Unknown Author
- Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee