Montesquieu Quotes

I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart.

The more wit the less courage.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.

Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

I'm not too unintelligent.

There's many a man has more hair than wit.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

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.

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

Mitt der Dummheit k a« mpfen G o« tter selbst vergebens. Even the gods themselves struggle in vain against stupidity.

You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

It needs brains to be a real fool.

Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.