A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit: how quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!
Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.
Words may shew a man’s Wit, but Actions his Meaning.
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.[Der Witz ist das Epigramm auf den Tod eines Gefühls.]
Look, he’s winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Wit is thought to be a quality rare in comedians. It is so natural to suppose that persons who spend their lives in showing things on the outside have nothing within.[L’esprit passe pour une qualité rare chez les comédiens. Il est si naturel de supposer que les gens qui dépensent leur vie à tout mettre en dehors n’aient rien au dedans!]
Tricks and Treachery are the Practice of Fools, that have not Wit enough to be honest.
Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.
There are no fools so troublesome as those that have wit.
