Book Quote by Joseph Joubert

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, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.

— Anonymous

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— William Penn

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.

— Patrick O'Brian

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

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

— Phaedrus

Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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 is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel