Beautiful Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers…

— Florence King

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

— William Congreve

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless…

— Anonymous

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

— William Shakespeare

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless…

— Philip Dormer Stanhope

There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.

— Elizabeth Montagu

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.

— William Congreve

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

— George Meredith

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

— Frank Muir

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel