Deeper Quote by George Eliot

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

— Andre Maurois

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Dorothy Parker

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 lowest form of humor.

— Alexander Pope

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 is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

— Khalil Gibran

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

— William Shakespeare

Your wit makes others witty.

— Catherine the Great