Conversation Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war…

— Ambrose Bierce

The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes.

— Haridas Chaudhuri

Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

— William Penn

It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity.

— Luc de Clapiers

When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.

— Laozi

To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected…

— Saint Francis de Sales

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.

— Patrick O'Brian

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

— Agnes Repplier

“Greatest perfection imperfect will be, But its work ne'er waneth Greatest fulness is vacuity, Its work unexhausted remaineth." "Straightest lines resemble curves; Greatest skill…

— Hua Ching Ni Paul Carus

Reprehension is a kind of middle thing betwixt admonition and correction: it is sharpe admonition, but a milde correction. It is rather to be…

— William Gouge

It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.

— Aristophanes

Repetition makes perfect.

— DeAndre Hopkins