William Wycherley Quotes About Wit

Quotes about: Wit

• Wit has as few true judges as painting.

  William Wycherley

  Judging, Painting, Wit

  William Wycherley, Peter Dixon (1998). “Country Wife and Other Plays”, p.13, Oxford University Press, USA

• But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it

  William Wycherley

  Beauty, Thinking, Ugly

  1675 The Country Wife, act 1, sc.1.

• As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.

  William Wycherley

  Action, Wit, Council

  William Wycherley, William Congreve, Sir John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar (1871). “The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar :”, p.18

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