Roger L'Estrange Quotes About Wit

Quotes about: Wit

• Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Enemy, Common, Wit

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1714). “Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections”, p.392

• Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Men, Brain, Minerva

• The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Strong, Soil, Sun

• The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Men, Laughing, May

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