And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.
Thomas Shadwell
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
Montesquieu
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The liveliest effusions of wit and humour are simply what the reader of a novel has a right to expect.
Howard Jacobson
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The well of true wit is truth itself.
George Meredith
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Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.
Elizabeth Montagu
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander Pope
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The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
James Boswell
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Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Benjamin Franklin
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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
Madame de Stael
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Dad was synonymous with his charm and wit and grace, and it was sort of the perfect way to go for him.
Jennifer Grant
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Wit doesn't make girls pretty.
Jeanne Calment
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Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.
Stan Laurel
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Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.
Mary Astell
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I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled.
Janice Dickinson
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Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
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There's many a man has more hair than wit.
William Shakespeare
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A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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The more wit the less courage.
Thomas Fuller
CourageMoreWitLess
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
Mark Van Doren
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Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Henry Fielding
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No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
George Savile
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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.
Charles Lamb
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