Should Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to…

— Jean de la Bruyere

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 fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

One can have a wit, but not a witless

— Brandon Sanderson

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

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

— Alexander Pope

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

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

— Novalis

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

Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.

— Stephen Fry