Arise Quote by Joseph Joubert

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

— Phaedrus

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

— Walter Savage Landor

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, 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 the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a simile, or…

— John Arbuthnot

The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them.…

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain.

— Eugenie de Guerin

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

— George Santayana

Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit…

— Agnes Repplier