Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Wit
-
Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
→ -
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.
→ -
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them
→ -
There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be pretensions, or there will be no jealousy.
→ -
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root. CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon; Or, Many Things in a Few Words Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.
→ -
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
→ -
Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.
→ -
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.
→ -
Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty.
→ -
Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.
→ -
There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. He that deserts the latter, and gives himself up entirely to the guidance of the former, will certainly fall into many pitfalls and quagmires, like him who walks by flashes of lightning, rather than the steady beams of the sun.
→
Related Authors
-
Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher -
George William Curtis Writer -
Katharine Whitehorn Journalist -
Thomas Carlyle Philosopher -
Sun Tzu Strategist -
James Ramsey Ullman Writer -
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Author -
William Hazlitt Writer -
Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet -
Walter Bagehot Journalist -
David Viscott Author -
O. Henry Writer -
-
John Churton Collins Literary critic -
Clarence Budington Kelland Film writer -
Jean de La Fontaine Poet -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher -
Jackie Mason Comedian -
Spike Milligan Comedian -
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Physician