Apt Quote by Elizabeth Montagu

Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Anonymous

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 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

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

Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as when Hume…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

— John Selden

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

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 and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.

— Thomas Overbury

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

— Michel de Montaigne

“No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!”

— Patrick Rothfuss