Arguing Quote by William Congreve

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.

— William Congreve

Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Agnes Repplier

There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Beauty without wit offers love nothing but the material enjoyment of its physical charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind,…

— Giacomo Casanova

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

— Samuel Johnson

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 absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.

— Thomas Overbury

“When a novel lacks the indefinable, unmistakable thing we call beauty, one looks in it for sound delineation of character, or humour of situation,…

— George Orwell

Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.

— Stephen Fry

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