“Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.”
Wit Quotes
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Wit Quotes
Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays
“I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.”
“Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.”
“With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.”
Source: Faust
Source: Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide
“Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.”
Source: The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha
“A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.”
“An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.”
Source: Poor Richard Day by Day
“Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.”
“Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.”
“Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you.”
Source: Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.
Source: Aristotle, with an English Translation: The
Source: the works of thomas hood
“Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.”
Source: Leigh Hunt's Works
“It takes a hell of a lot for a man to put up with me. I can be a handful.”
“Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.”
“Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations
“Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
Source: The Works of George Herbert: Poems
Source: The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum
Source: The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings
“There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.”
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with a life
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' .”
“Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.”
Source: The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson
Source: The poetical works of Charles Churchill, with notes by W. Tooke. with a memoir by J.L. Hannay
Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell
Source: The wisdom of being religious
“The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.”