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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one’s own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.

New Year’s resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.

Politics make me sick

As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed ‘dignity’ to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.

One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin in a flirt’s belt.

I get it, I get it. I get it, I get it. Your hustle don’t ever go unnoticed baby, I’m wit you, I’m wit it.

Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.

With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails.

If folly disappeared, wit would starve.

Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Make the doors upon a woman’s wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and ’twill out at the key-hole; stop that, ’twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.

I had to use my wits or else I’d have been sunk – and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me, tugging at me, as if they wanted a piece of me. It was always, ‘do this, do that,’ and not just on the job but off, too. God, I’ve tried to stay intact, whole.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man.

Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.

I assure you, you will never survive on your wits alone.

The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.

Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.

Too much wit makes the world rotten.

I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.

Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question, a flash that lights up a situation. Wit suggests the delicate but delightful play of a rapier in the hands of a master.

Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.

The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases – as in the nature of things it must be – that one would suppose politicians must sometimes strain their wits to coin them.