quotations about wit
Wit, without wisdom, is like a song without sense, it does not please long.
H. W. SHAW
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attributed, Day's Collacon
I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response.
FRAN LEBOWITZ
"In Conversation: Fran Lebowitz with Phong Bui", The Brooklyn Rail, March 4, 2014
A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit;
How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Twelfth Night
His wit is bright, his humour attractive, but both bear the same relation to his serious genius that the mere lambent sheet-lightning playing under the edge of the summer-cloud does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb.
CHARLOTTE BRONTË
preface, Jane Eyre
His wit is his new bat and the Twitter handle his new pitch.
JAIDEEP GHOSH
"Sachin Tendulkar Seeks Caption For Picture With Virender Sehwag", NDTV, April 5, 2017
It is as offensive to speak wit in a fool's company, as it would be ill manners to whisper in it; he is displeased at both for the same reason, because he is ignorant of what is said.
ALEXANDER POPE
"Thoughts on Various Subjects"
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.
CHARLES LAMB
"Confessions of a Drunkard", The Last Essays of Elia
Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.
JULIUS CHARLES HARE
Guesses at Truth
Wit is Welcome. Timely Wit, Even More So. Show me one person who doesn't like a good laugh and I'll show you a hypocrite.
ROHAN AYYAR
"5 Brands Winning on Social Media -- And What You can Learn From Them", Business 2 Community, January 21, 2016
Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1750
Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.
DANIEL DEFOE
A Second Volume of the Writings of the Author of The True-born Englishman
A clever wit is always timeless.
KATE WINGFIELD
Metro Weekly, January 14, 2016
Have you summoned your wits from wool-gathering?
THOMAS MIDDLETON
The Family of Love
Too much wit makes the world rotten.
ALFRED TENNYSON
Idylls of the King
He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.
PLATO
attributed, Day's Collacon
Luckily, wit is contagious.
NICHOLAS CRONK
"Voltaire and the one-liner", Oxford University Press blog, March 10, 2017
There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
DOROTHY PARKER
The Paris Review, summer 1956
When the drink is in the wit is out.
SONIA SIMS
Belfast Telegraph, January 23, 2016
Less judgment than wit, is more sail than ballast.
WILLIAM PENN
Fruits of Solitude
Quick wit is lauded by friends and foes alike.
TRISTAN HOPPER
National Post, August 17, 2015