Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Wit is educated insolence.
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
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 is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.