The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.
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.
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
There's many a man has more hair than wit.
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
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.
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.