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

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
Mark Van Doren

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark Twain

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Madame de Stael

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
William Congreve

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
Noel Coward

Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.
Thomas Malory

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
Helen Rowland

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.
Neil Kinnock

You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready.
Henny Youngman

Your wit makes others witty.
Catherine II