Great wits and valours, like great states,
Do sometimes sink with their own weights.

Great wits and valours, like great states,
Do sometimes sink with their own weights.

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

Wit is cultured insolence.

Wit is cultured insolence.

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough
to be a wit.

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough
to be a wit.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.

Wit is far more often a shield than a lance

Wit is far more often a shield than a lance

Wit is educated insolence.

Wit is educated insolence.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.