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

Samuel Butler

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Alexander Pope

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

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

Leigh Hunt

The well of true wit is truth itself.

George Meredith