Neither have they hearts to stay. Nor wit enough to run away.

Samuel Butler
1,364

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Alexander Pope
905
Wit is a treacherous dart. It is perhaps the only weapon with which it is possible to stab oneself in one's own back. -Geoffrey Bocca
260

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes around a corner.

Leigh Hunt
200

The well of true wit is truth itself.

George Meredith
199