"Wit is educated insolence."

Aristotle · Wit · 4 fans >>
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"Melancholy men are of all others the most witty."

Aristotle · Wit · 4 fans >>
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"Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out."

Bierce, Ambrose · Wit · 0 fans >>
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"The banalities of a great man pass for wit."

Chase, Alexander · Wit · 1 fans >>
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"Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another."

Chesterfield, Lord · Wit · 1 fans >>
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"A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income."

Chesterfield, Lord · Wit · 0 fans >>
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"Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor · Wit · 0 fans >>
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"Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade."

Coward, Noel · Wit · 1 fans >>
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"A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing."

Cowper, William · Wit · 0 fans >>
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"People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate."

Eliot, George · Wit · 2 fans >>
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