Margaret Cavendish Quotes About Wit

Quotes about: Wit

• Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Graves, Wit, Tombs

  'Plays' (1662) p. 525

• Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Brain, Fruit, Plagiarism

• And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Understanding, Literature, Loyal

  Margaret Cavendish (2002). “Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions”, p.205, Broadview Press

• Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Years, Idiot, Wit

  Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.46, Broadview Press

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