Amount Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

— William Penn

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.

— William Hazlitt

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

— Alexander Pope

It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it…

— William Penn

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

There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

— Dorothy Parker

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to…

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

One can have a wit, but not a witless

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Samuel Johnson