Every man Quote by Walter Savage Landor

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless…

— Philip Dormer Stanhope

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

True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none.

— George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham

The well of true wit is truth itself.

— George Meredith

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 and wisdom are born with a man.

— John Selden

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Alexander Pope

True wit has a grave intention.

— Mason Cooley

Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question,…

— Arthur Lynch

That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and…

— King James I

Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

— Agnes Repplier