Wit Quotes

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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

My dreams are who I'm racin wit but you can see I'm pacin it so that I'm always chasin it.

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.

A handbag is only one item to be worn with a complete outfit. Add a peony pink leather handbag to a charcoal gray suit, for instance, and the impact is chic with a touch of wit.

Simplicity, wit, and good typography.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.

I value each woman for what she has to offer whether it be charm-beauty-wit-intelligence or humor but warmth is the quality I value most.

With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.

This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite.

There's many a man hath more hair than wit.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

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

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

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

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh?

Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.

Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy.

A hard core life I toast to ex flaw, therefore I live raw and went to war wit the law.

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I say it - God.

I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

A woman of haughty and fierce carriage, of a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a man.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

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

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun, These people ain't seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one

There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.

Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.

As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.