Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes About Wit

Quotes about: Wit

• Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Inspirational, Witty, Able

• The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Mind, Lightning, Brilliant

• Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Evil, Abuse, Satire

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.207

• Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Holiday, Play, Effort

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.206

• Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Independent, Sometimes, Reason

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.206

• Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Retreat, Advantage, Wit

• We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Office, Tendencies, Wit

• Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Dishes, Wit, Whole

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.209

• The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Witty, Self, Able

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.124

• At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Sarcasm, Mind, Irony

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.207

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