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Wit Quotes by Philip Sidney
- Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the…
- Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
- Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made…
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- 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