Wit Quotes

Many live by their wits but few by their wit.

Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know what modern soldiers see when they look at their world, read this book.

Resounding…with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable.

wit, wit! - I look upon it always as a draught of air; it cools indeed, but one gets a stiff neck from it.

Wit resembles a coquette; those who the most eagerly run after it are the least favored.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies.

Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.

Dad was synonymous with his charm and wit and grace, and it was sort of the perfect way to go for him.

Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.

there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

The wit of men compared to that of women is like rouge compared to the rose.

Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to.

Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs do from the cobblestones.

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.

[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?

It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.

The key to spontaneous wit is an unburdened mind.

Ohhh, I'm in luv, I'm in luv I'm in luv, I'm in luv wit chu And there ain't nothin nobody can say cuz You're the one for me baby

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock.

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

The more wit the less courage.

Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.

don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.

Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon

After wisdom comes wit.

Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.

Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!

Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.

Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.

...but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world.

Freedom, where are you? Who holds you back? [...] The mother of wit and pleasure, Oh freedom!

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.