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«Wit is a treacherous dart. It is perhaps the only weapon with which it is possible to stab oneself in one's own back.»
«Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.»
Author: William Wycherley
| Keywords:
agreeable, handsome, handsomer, handsomest, ugly, wit, young woman
«The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
humorist, humorists, satirist, Satirists, the humorist, wit
«Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike»
Author: Madame de Stael
| About:
Knowledge,
Wit
| Keywords:
alike, differ, differed, resemblance, seeing, wit
«Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Mind,
Wit
| Keywords:
discreetly, possessor, possessors, weapon, wit
«Wit is cultured insolence.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Wit
| Keywords:
cultured, insolence, Their culture, wit
«Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
calisthenics, wisecrack, wisecracking, wisecracks, wit
«While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
| Keywords:
amusement, apart, deeper, exercising, Great Spirit, harmony, in full, kept, Learning to, mockery, solemn, thus, wit