Character Quote by Dylan Moran

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

— Stendhal

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not…

— Diana Vreeland

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

— Antoine Rivarol

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

— Andre Maurois

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Il ne faut point donner d'esprit a' ses personnages; mais savoir les placer dans des circonstances qui leur en donnent. You should not give…

— Denis Diderot

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

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

— William Shakespeare

One can have a wit, but not a witless

— Brandon Sanderson

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those…

— Aaron Sorkin

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