Dangerous Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Wit is a treacherous dart. It is perhaps the only weapon with which it is possible to stab oneself in one's own back.

— Geoffrey Bocca

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

— Anonymous

Wit is a comic's defense weapon.

— Bob Crane

Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless…

— Anonymous

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

No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve…

— Sigmund Freud

There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it…

— Elizabeth I

Wit is a thing capable of proof.

— Agnes Repplier

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

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless…

— Philip Dormer Stanhope