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“Wit is a treacherous dart. It is perhaps the only weapon with which it is possible to stab oneself in one's own back.”
Geoffrey Bocca
“Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together”
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
“Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief”
William Shakespeare
“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
“She hath more hair than wit, and more faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults.”
“A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”
Joseph Roux
“If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment”
Arnold Bennett
“An ounce of wit is worth a pound of argument”
Sydney Smith
“There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.”
Alexander Pope
