Edward Young Quotes About Wit

Quotes about: Wit

• Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.

  Edward Young

  Hope, Two, Miracle

  Edward Young (1852). “The Poetical Works”, p.48

• Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound; When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam; Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.

  Edward Young

  Cutting, Sound, Beam

  Edward Young (1837). “The Complaint and Consolation; Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality: To which is Added, The Force of Religion”, p.204

• Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

  Edward Young

  Excellence, Lasts, Firsts

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.267

• As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their offence is seen, Both pain us least when exquisitely keen.

  Edward Young

  Pain, Oil, Razors

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.358

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