Wit is educated insolence.

Wit is educated insolence.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

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

Wit lasts no more than two centuries.

3061. Idleness makes the Wit rust.

Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distils an idea.

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. John Kennedy had wit, and so did Lincoln, who also had abundant humor; Reagan was mostly humor.

Nothing is so much admired, and so little understood, as wit.