Acquaintance Quote by Henry Fielding

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

Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?

— George Eliot

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

— Alexander Pope

I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions;…

— Samuel Johnson

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

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

In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that islandare pedants.…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

— Horace Mann

That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and…

— King James I

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

— Dorothy Parker