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Wit

A man may learn wit every day

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

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

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

John Dryden (1631-1700)

He thought he was a wit, and he was half right.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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 Johnson (1709-1784)

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 Colton (1780-1832)

No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit."

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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

William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

The well of true wit is truth itself

George Meredith (1828-1909)

Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike

Madame de Staël (1766-1817)

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

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