Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
Don't set your wit against a child.
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.