Beauty Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 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

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 must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license,…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that islandare pedants.…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

— Anonymous

One can have a wit, but not a witless

— Brandon Sanderson

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Alexander Pope

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

— Alexander Pope

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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