Carnivals Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question,…

— Arthur Lynch

Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.

— Samuel Johnson

Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

— Alexander Pope

Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One can have a wit, but not a witless

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel