Character Quote by Jonathan Swift

When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

— Alexander Chase

Men of superior vivacity and wit, when they take a wrong turn, are generally worse than other men: because wit, consisting in a lively…

— Jeremiah Seed

A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend…

— John Tillotson

“If Shakespeare be considered as a MAN born in a rude age and educated in the lowest manner, without any instruction either from the…

— David Hume

If a man writes a brilliant enough play in praise of something that is universally loathed, the play, if it is good and well…

— Edward Albee

“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers,…

— Virginia Woolf

A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius…

— William Shenstone

The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram;…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“The scholar explained, very neatly, that a play might well have something interesting about it, but no literary value. He demonstrated, without wasting words,…

— Voltaire

“Words may show a man's wit, actions his meaning.”

— Benjamin Franklin

The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the profit and…

— Richard Cumberland