George Herbert Quotes About Wit

Quotes about: Wit

• In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

  George Herbert

  Humor, Talking, Easiness

• Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.

  George Herbert

  Fool, Hours, Wit

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.11

• In thy discourse, if thou desire to please;
  All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie:
  Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease;
  Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.

  George Herbert

  Desire, News, Courtesy

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.9

• The Germans wit is in his fingers.

  George Herbert

  Fingers, Wit

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.222

• Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.

  George Herbert

  Drink, Wit

  George Herbert (1871). “The English Poems of George Herbert: Together with His Collection of Proverbs Entitled Jacula Prudentum”, p.227

• Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.

  George Herbert

  Witty, Laughter, Ignorance

  George Herbert (1835). “The Works of George Herbert: Poems”, p.9

• When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.

  George Herbert

  Needs, Mirth, Sin

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.5

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