As true Wit consists in the Resemblance of Ideas, and false Wit in the Resemblance of Words, according to the foregoing Instances; there is another kind of Wit which consists partly in the Resemblance of Ideas, and partly in the Resemblance of Words; which for Distinction Sake I shall call mixt Wit.

I do not mean that the wit was very choice or the humour at all remarkableit would not bear being written

Also Wit and Drollery (1681): Penelope to Ulysses: The Stools of Dornix which that you may know well Are certain stuffs Upholsterers use to sell.

Lace and Drapery is as much a Man, as Wit and Turn is Passion.

Ah, how I have loved my friends; the rarest wits of my generation were my boon companions; everything conspired to enable me to gratify my body and my brain; and do you think this would have been so if I had been a good man?

275; 'This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords,' i. 266; 'Wit is generally false reasoning' (Wycherley), iii. 23, n. 3. WITHOUT.

Idleness of the mind is much worse than this of the body; wit without employment is a disease Aerugo animi, rubigo ingenii: the rust of the soul, [1550]a plague, a hell itself, Maximum animi nocumentum, Galen, calls it.

Deep-reaching wits, here is no deep stream for you to angle in.

It has welcomed all who were worthy of welcome, from the pale clergyman who came to breathe the sea-air with its medicinal salt and iodine, to the great statesman who turned his back on the affairs of empire, and smoothed his Olympian forehead, and flashed his white teeth in merriment over the long table, where his wit was the keenest and his story the best.

No author ever spared a brother; Wits are game-cocks to one another.'

Danter, thou art deceived, wit is dearer than thou takest it to be: I tell thee, this libel of Cambridge has much fat and pepper in the nose; it will sell sheerly underhand, when all these books of exhortations and catechisms lie moulding on thy shopboard.

Some wits have been humourists also; nearly all humourists have been also wits; yet the two fall, on the whole, into tolerably well-marked classes, and the ordinary uncritical judgment would, probably, enable most men to state with sufficient certainty the class to which each famous name in the world's literature belongs.

A waspish wit was Josie's.

"Wit out of season is one sort of folly.

He says some of the best things in the worldand declareth that wit is his aversion.

The wits of Queen Anne's reign, and the beginning of George the First, were not a little beholden to him.

DEAR MR. PUNCH,Nothing annoys me more than the assumption that wit, learning, fancy, etc., were the monopoly of the past.

Wit is a creeping dotard, and Happiness he is in poor health

Irish wit and Irish humor are a national inheritance.

In moments of relaxation his wit and humour were the delight of his clerical friends, for he had the rare power of telling anecdotes effectively.

So shall thy rebel wit become her prize.

She quotes a "wonderfully just" passage from Milton, calls a licentious speech from Dryden's "State of Innocence" an "odious thing," and says "a thousand good things at random, but so strangely mixed, that you would be apt to say, all her wit is mere good luck, and not the effect of reason and judgment."

But the same Ostracisme benighted one, To whom all these were but illusion; It tooke our FLETCHER hence, Fletcher, whose wit Was not an accident to th' soule, but It; Onely diffused.

Wit is simply a form of thought, and is as intellectual as scientific study.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.