Coins Quote by Jack Smith

The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them.…

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

The praise is the phrasing of the word

— Anonymous

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

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

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

— William Penn

Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.

— William Shenstone

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

— Agnes Repplier

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

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“When you get praised, ‘see’ it and when you get defamed, also ‘see’ it. Because both praise and defamation are pudgal (non-Self complex of…

— Dada Bhagwan

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

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

— Elias Canetti

Fool's praise is censure

— Proverb