Character Quote by Plato

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

— 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

The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.

— Alexander Pope

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

— Samuel Johnson

They have a plentiful lack of wit.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Novalis

Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.

— Philip James Bailey

“There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”

— Dorothy Parker

“use words that fit the context, to learn when to use high-flown language and when to use down-home words, and generally quit putting on…

— Kory Stamper

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.

— Thomas Shadwell