Brilliant Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“Lightning goes off inside huge thunderheads nine miles off the starboard wing. In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains…

— Stephen King

Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

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

The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.

— John Tyndall

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.

— James Gates Percival

Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?

— George Eliot

Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

— Camille Flammarion

Rising genius always shoots forth its rays from among clouds and vapours, but these will gradually roll away and disappear, as it ascends to…

— Washington Irving

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.

— Jean de la Bruyere