War of Wit

“Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.”
G. K. Chesterton

“Wit is far more often a shield than a lance”
Unknown

“Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.”
William Hazlitt

“Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike”
Madame de Stael

“So vast is art, so narrow human wit.”
Alexander Pope

“Wit must be foiled by wit : cut a diamond with a diamond”
William Congreve

“Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty”
Joseph Addison

“Wit: Intellect on a spree”
Unknown

“Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.”
Mark Twain

“Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity”
Joseph Addison