Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
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.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.