Top Wit Quotes
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander Pope
There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.
Jensen Ackles
To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
William Congreve
Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.
Margaret Cavendish
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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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Let the master praise him, and say, "Here ye do well." For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Roger Ascham
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
Florence King
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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.
Margaret Cavendish
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No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
John Selden
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Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
William Wycherley
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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
William Temple
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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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What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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