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Image of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Image of Moliere
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
- Moliere
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Image of Hester Lynch Piozzi
Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit.
- Hester Lynch Piozzi
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Image of Jean le Rond d'Alembert
The more wit we have, the less satisfied we are with it.
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert
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Image of William Shakespeare
If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.
- William Shakespeare
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Image of Antoine Rivarol
There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.
- Antoine Rivarol
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Image of William Shakespeare
Muster your wits; stand in your own defence.
- William Shakespeare
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Image of Baron de Montesquieu
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
- Baron de Montesquieu
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Image of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Image of Joseph Addison
Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
- Joseph Addison
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Image of Leo Tolstoy
No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit
- Leo Tolstoy
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Image of Brandon Sanderson
One can have a wit, but not a witless
- Brandon Sanderson
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Image of Laurence J. Peter
Many live by their wits but few by their wit.
- Laurence J. Peter
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Image of Alexander Pope
I have more zeal than wit.
- Alexander Pope
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Image of John Selden
Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.
- John Selden
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Image of Ouida
nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.
- Ouida
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Image of John Lyly
I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.
- John Lyly
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Image of Lord Chesterfield
A joker is near akin to a buffoon; and neither of them is the least related to wit.
- Lord Chesterfield
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Image of Mason Cooley
Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life.
- Mason Cooley
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Image of Mason Cooley
If folly disappeared, wit would starve.
- Mason Cooley
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Image of Henry Fielding
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
- Henry Fielding
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Image of John Dryden
One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.
- John Dryden
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of John Heywood
So many heads so many wits.
- John Heywood
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Image of Leigh Hunt
Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.
- Leigh Hunt
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Image of Samuel Johnson
Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.
- Samuel Johnson
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Image of Douglas William Jerrold
Malice blunts the point of wit.
- Douglas William Jerrold
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