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Wit Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
- A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
- Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in…
- A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another.
- It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny…
- Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh…
- Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners.
- If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching.
- It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.
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