Impropriety is the soul of wit.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Wit is educated insolence.
Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
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.
Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.
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 most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.