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“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.”
G. K. Chesterton Quotes |
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“Wit is cultured insolence.”
Aristotle Quotes |
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“Wit is far more often a shield than a lance”
Michel de Montaigne Quotes |
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“Wit is the epitaph of an emotion”
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes |
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“Wit is the lowest form of humor.”
Alexander Pope Quotes |
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“Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.”
William Hazlitt Quotes |
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“Wit is educated insolence.”
Aristotle Quotes |
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“Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike”
Madame de Stael Quotes |
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“Wit is educated insolence.”
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“Wit is educated insolence.”
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“An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow.”
Richard Baxter Quotes Source: Of Self-Denial
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“What silly people wits are!
[Lat., Que les gens d'esprit sont betes.]”
Pierre Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais Quotes Source: Barbier de Seville (I, 1)
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“Aristotle said , , , melancholy men of all others are most witty.”
Robert Burton Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. III, memb. 1, subsect. 3)
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“We grant, although he had much wit,
H' was very shy of using it,
As being loth to wear it out,
And therefore bore it not about;
Unless on holy days or so,
As men their best apparel do.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 45)
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“Great wits and valours, like great states,
Do sometimes sink with their own weights.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 269)
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“Do sometimes sink with their own weights.
[Lat., Votre espril en donne aux autres.]”
Catherine, the Great Quotes Source: Letter to Voltaire
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“Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get
blunted.”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes Source: The Little Gypsy
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“I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough
to be a wit.”
William Congreve Quotes Source: Love for Love (act I, sc. 1)
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“His wit invites you by his looks to come,
But when you knock, it never is at home.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Conversation (l. 303)
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“Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Table Talk (l. 665)
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“Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 163)
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“Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Sixth Satire of Juvenal (l. 573)
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“Wit will shine
Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
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“Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit;
sometimes so long, that there is no wit for so much room.”
Thomas Fuller Quotes Source: The Holy and Profane States (bk. IV, ch. XII, Of Natural Fools, maxim I)
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