Action Quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater

Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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 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 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

The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.

— Alexander Pope

Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible…

— Agnes Repplier

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

Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit.

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.

— William Hazlitt