Appearance Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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 is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit is the flower of the imagination.

— Livy

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

— Samuel Johnson

Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

— Anonymous

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

— Anonymous

One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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 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