Branding Quote by Edwin Percy Whipple

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

— Anonymous

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

Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain.

— Eugenie de Guerin

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Wit is a treacherous dart. It is perhaps the only weapon with which it is possible to stab oneself in one's own back.

— Geoffrey Bocca

Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss…

— Diana Trilling

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

The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.

— Alexander Pope

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

— Samuel Johnson

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

— Anonymous