Wit quotes

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◆ I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

- Douglas Adams100

◆ Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. So said by the idiot who can't understand it.

- Ramandeep Singh100

◆ Wit is cultured insolence.

- Aristotle99

◆ Wit is the epitaph of an emotion

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ Wit is the lowest form of humor.

- Alexander Pope99

◆ Wit is educated insolence.

- Aristotle99

◆ Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

- William Somerset Maugham99

◆ Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre

- Samuel Johnson99

◆ Great wits are sure to madness near allied - And thin partitions do their bounds divide

- John Dryden99

◆ Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

- William Hazlitt99

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

- Joseph Addison99

◆ The well of true wit is truth itself

- George Meredith99

◆ I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min

- Samuel Johnson99

◆ Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them

- Charles Caleb Colton99