Aptitude Quote by Samuel Johnson

Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Alexander Pope

As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.

— William Wycherley

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

It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Wit and judgment often are at strife.

— Alexander Pope

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 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 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

“A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ Survey the whole nor seek slight faults…

— Alexander Pope

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