What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
Lord Byron

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
Elizabeth I

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
Lewis Carroll

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
Mason Cooley

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Ambrose Bierce

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

Wit doesn't make girls pretty.
Jeanne Calment

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.
Elizabeth Montagu

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
Michel de Montaigne

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
Frank Muir

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle

Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
William Wycherley

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.
Lord Chesterfield

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Alexander Pope

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
Arthur Murphy