Character Quote by Jonathan Swift

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 often its own worst enemy.

— Maria Edgeworth

Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many…

— John Gregory

Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

— Agnes Repplier

Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The key to spontaneous wit is an unburdened mind.

— Darwin Ortiz

Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss…

— Diana Trilling

Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question,…

— Arthur Lynch

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

— William Penn

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld