Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.
If folly disappeared, wit would starve.
They have a plentiful lack of wit.
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.
The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.
