Wit is well-bred insolence.

The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them…

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

For conversation well endued; She calls it witty to be rude; And, placing raillery in railing, Will tell aloud your greatest failing.

People who ask 'Can I ask you a question?' Didn't really give me a choice, did you there, buddy?

I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite.