John Dryden Quotes

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

I wanted to be clever, but being funny came first. That's how you know someone is clever. They don't come out and tell you pi to 13 places - they tell you a joke.

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.

Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

I don't like to make a big splash anyway.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.

If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

To say more, is to say less.

Always sing below your potential.

I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.

I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.

I'm understated in my approach.

If there's an intelligence behind the joke - - it's a good joke.

Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.

Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life.

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.