Controversy Quote by Theodore Parker

Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss…

— Diana Trilling

Wit is a comic's defense weapon.

— Bob Crane

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

— Anonymous

The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.

— 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

wit is often its own worst enemy.

— Maria Edgeworth

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 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

Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

— William Penn

“A cultivated wit, one that badgers less, can persuade all the more. Artful ridicule can address contentious issues more competently and vigorously than can…

— Horace

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

— Phaedrus

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

— Samuel Johnson