Wit Quotes

Wit Quote of the day

Avoid witticisms at the expense of Others.

True wit is nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed.

Great men may jest with saints 'tis wit in them But in the less foul profanation.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less -- um --'Hugh: 'Pained?

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

I am not gamesome: I do lack some partof that quick spirit that is in Antony.

It is excellent / To have a giant's strenght / But it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant(Isabella)

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous andshallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what youknow ain't so'.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you. Posthumus

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it sho

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

A witty saying proves nothing.

There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.

When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.

Deliver me from my disciples!

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial.

Jack shall have Jill.Nought shall go ill.

If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.

Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.

They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.", 1657)

The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.

Good madonna, give me leave toprove you a fool.

If I be waspish, best beware my sting.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.

I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Well, well, " said he, "do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good girl for the next ten years, I will take you to a review at the end of them.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

He has got no good red blood in his body, " said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses, " said Mrs. Cadwallader.

My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.

If it's me against 48 I feel sorry for the 48.