John Selden Quotes About Wit

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  • No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

    John SELDEN, Richard Milward (1786). “Table-Talk: being the Discourses of John Selden, Esq.; or his sence of various matters of weight and high consequence relating especially to Religion and State. Edited by R. Milward”, p.77
  • Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

    John Selden, Richard Milward (1786). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq., or his sense of various matters of weight and high consequence. Relating especially to religion and state”, p.77
  • Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

    John Selden, Richard Milward (1689). “Table Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden”, p.152
  • Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.

    John Selden (1856). “The table-talk of John Selden, with a biogr. preface and notes by S.W. Singer”, p.167
  • Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.

    John Selden, Richard Milward (1689). “Table Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden”, p.151
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