Wit Quotes

Wit puts politicians at risk.

It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting.

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

Avoid witticisms at the expense of Others.

Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one.

Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.

... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.

Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.

Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.

Just bring your wits. Sometimes that's the most effective weapon any of us has.

Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil.

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.

Men are not nearly as evolved as women are, nor as intelligent, evidently

Let me be clear. Last I was aware you were neither my husband nor my father nor my King. Therefore, any control you may imagine you hold over me is just that- imaginary

Writing a book is like sliding down a rainbow! Marketing it is like trudging through a field of chewed bubblegum on a hot, sticky day.

One can have a wit, but not a witless

Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.

Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

I didn't cross the line, you drew it in after I traversed it.

Well, I can throw a mean comeback, so there's that. I will crush them on wit.

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

I am shocked and slightly perturbed by his exuberance and quick wit. Knock Knock Channel 4

Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

Wit is a thing capable of proof.

Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.

Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!