Charles Lamb Quotes About Wit

Quotes about: Wit

• Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.

  Charles Lamb

  Heart, Blades, Stains

• A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

  Charles Lamb

  Law, Ears, Pistols

  1833 Of puns. Last Essays of Elia,'Popular Fallacies', no.9.

• Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

  Charles Lamb

  Character, Nerves, Wit

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.9

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