Believe Quote by Henry Fielding

“He then bespattered the youth with abundance of that language which passes between country gentleman who embrace opposite sides of the question; with frequent…

— Henry Fielding

Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless…

— Anonymous

Wit is well-bred insolence.

— Aristotle

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

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

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 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

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

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

— Michel de Montaigne

Wit is cultured insolence.

— Aristotle