Defined Quote by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.

— 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

Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

— Alexander Pope

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

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

— William Penn

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

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

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license,…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

— Agnes Repplier