Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Wit

Quotes about: Wit

• As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wisdom, Saying Nothing, Few Words

• Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Conceited, Causes, Conversation

• Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Cheating, Men, Sometimes

• The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Faults, Mark, Wit

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 377, 1678.

• A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Running, Long, Degrees

• What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Witty, Wit

• The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Understanding, Soul

• A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Long, Kind

• A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Lying, Future, Men

• Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fool, Sometimes, Wit

• Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Idiot, Wit

• Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Wisest Man

  "Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, no. 7, 1665-1678.

• The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Desire, Quality, Praise

• Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Confidence, Share, Conversation

• Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Sometimes, Wit, Impunity

• A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Long, Doe

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