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True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none.
Cleverness never seems quite so impressive when regarded outside the moment,
A good wit will make use of anything.
Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
The time for witticisms is over and the time for wits beginning. If
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence.
If you took half the energy you devote to being witty and channeled it into your work, I daresay you could be one of the greatest scholars of our age.
Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.
There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.
Smart stupid. Stupid smart.
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
There's no greater proof of an impoverished mind than its inability to be witty except at other people's expense.
The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
Clever is the eunuch version of funny.
Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.
A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.
Stupid is the New Smart.
They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.
Wit is often its own worst enemy.
The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote some one who is.
Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.
Vulgarity is no substitute for wit
It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.
Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?
Thinking of something to say is difficult when you want to be perceived as clever!
New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.
Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you
good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate.
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.
The key to spontaneous wit is an unburdened mind.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
I do respect clever.
True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd;
Something whose truth convinced at sight we find,
That gives us back the image of our mind.
As shades more sweetly recommend the light,
So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
...without intelligence, there can be no humour.
Too clever is dumb.
Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.
It's a fine thing to be clever, but too much cleverness usually produces the same result as ignorance.-Lady Berwick
You think you're a very clever fellow, don't you?" Saldur challenged.
"No, Your Grace," Merrick replied. "Clever is the man who makes a fortune selling dried-up cows, explaining how it saves the farmers the trouble of getting up every morning to milk them. I'm not clever - I'm a genius.
Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.
Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.
Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
I like witty people, people who can be witty on the spot.
It's no use trying to be clever-we are all clever here; just try to be kind-a little kind.
The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
Wit does not take the place of knowledge.
Not smart. Happily stupid. Stupidly happy.
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
Cleverness is a disease.
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Wit beyond measure is mans greatest treasure
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
Humor is the pensiveness of wit.
True wit has a grave intention.
Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.
It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity.
Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.
There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.
I'd rather be funny than wise.
Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight ...
Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.
Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.
I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian.
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN
Now that your speech impediment has been rectified, perhaps you might say something. It would be best if it were humorous. I enjoy a good jest.'
'You are dreadfully rude,' I said to him.
He sighed. 'That wasn't the slightest bit funny.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.
Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
If they are just, they are better than clever.
Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.
The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee.
That wit is truly amiable, which gladdens and enlivens every thing, which shines with a lustre gentle, but not faint, and powerful, but not glaring.
But one of shallow wit, somewhat like a saltshaker with very little salt. In
Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to.
Wit is the flower of the imagination.
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
Very clever but dumb at shoothing... dumb as a person but clever at shooting. That's LOGIC!
Cleverness have no meanings until you find the stupidity that teach you.
Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.
Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.
He pulled out a single half-blackened disc of bronze. "Money," he said. "You get it by working, and then you trade it for things you want."
"But it's so small," said Runnel.
"So's your wit," said the man, and turned away.
A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.
A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares themwith new occurrences, and strikes out new lights from the collision. The consequence is sometimes bons mots, and sometimes apothegms.
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.
Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever.