A Quote by Alexander Pope
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.
By wit we search divine aspect above,
By wit we learn what secrets science yields,
By wit we speak, by wit the mind is rul'd,
By wit we govern all our actions;
Wit is the loadstar of each human thought,
Wit is the tool by which all things are wrought.
Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
Many live by their wits but few by their wit.
In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that islandare pedants. So are the "wits" there too. They introduce into reality absolute freedom whose reflection lends a romantic and piquant air to wit, and thus they live wittily; hence their talent for madness. They die for their principles.
You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.
Solving wits and puzzles, in a way, helps to develop wit and ingenuity.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
There is no dunce like a mature dunce.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.
Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.
Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art." Feste: "But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.
Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.
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