Common Quote by William Hazlitt

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

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

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 gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

— William Penn

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

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Wit is educated insolence.

— Aristotle

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

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

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

— Anonymous