Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
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.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.