Country Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

— Ellis Peters

The finest wits have their sediment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many live by their wits but few by their wit.

— Laurence J. Peter

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they…

— Edward Young

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

Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the…

— John Dryden

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

— Neil Kinnock

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

— Leo Tolstoy

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

— Alexander Pope

Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.

— Walter Savage Landor

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

— Stephen Fry