Conversation Quote by Renata Adler

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.

— Patrick O'Brian

Wit: a whim followed by a wham.

— Mason Cooley

“One cannot at least withhold a reluctant admiration for the wit that had conceived so bold a scheme, and the fell genius with which…

— J.M. Barrie

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

— Phaedrus

“Not miscalculation, bad strategy is the active avoidance of the hard work of crafting a good strategy.”

— Sebastian Marshall

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 seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.

— Leigh Hunt

True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.

— Alexander Pope

“So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye…

— Jacques Barzun

He thought he was a wit, and he was half right.

— Anonymous