Alexander Pope Quotes About Wit
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life; A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil; Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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I have more zeal than wit.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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