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Letter "W" » Wit
«Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.»
«Wit is a treacherous dart. It is perhaps the only weapon with which it is possible to stab oneself in one's own back.»
«The well of true wit is truth itself»
«Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes around a corner»
Author: Leigh Hunt
(Writer)
| About:
Wit
| Keywords:
clash, extremes, incongruities, incongruity, The Clash
«Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike»
Author: Madame de Stael
| About:
Knowledge,
Wit
| Keywords:
alike, differ, differed, resemblance, seeing, wit
«Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Mind,
Wit
| Keywords:
discreetly, possessor, possessors, weapon, wit
«Wit is educated insolence.»
«Wit is cultured insolence.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Wit
| Keywords:
cultured, insolence, Their culture, wit
«Wit is the epitaph of an emotion»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Wit
| Keywords:
epitaph, epitaphs
«Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Wit
| Keywords:
congruity, fetching, incongruities, incongruity
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