Wit Quotes
Wit is educated insolence.
de Rivarol, Antoine
Generally speaking there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.
Guitry, Sacha
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
Hazlitt, William
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
Holmes Sr., Oliver Wendell
The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Hunt, Leigh
Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.
Parker, Dorothy
There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply callisthenics with words.
Shaw, George Bernard
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
His fine wit makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.
Twain, Mark
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Voltaire
A witty saying proves nothing.
Walton, Izaak
He had too thoughtful a wit: like a penknife in too narrow a sheath, too sharp for his body.