Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit.
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.
I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled.
There's many a man has more hair than wit.
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
