Agnes Repplier Quotes About Wit

Quotes about: Wit

• We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.

  Agnes Repplier

  Intelligent, Conversation, Vistas

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

• Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

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  Quality, Infinite, Wit

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

• Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

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  Speech, Phrases, Accepted

  Agnes Repplier (1936). “In Pursuit of Laughter ...”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

• Wit is a thing capable of proof.

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  Proof, Wit, Capable

• Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.

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  Sweet, Hands, Order

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

• Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.

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  Giving, Foundation, Elude

• Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

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  Positive, Sarcastic, Attitude

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

• Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.

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  Humor, Fate, Effort

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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