Wit Quotes
If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.
To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.
VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.
It is not wit merely, but temper, which must form the well-bred man. In the same manner it is not a head merely, but a heart and resolution, which must complete the real philosopher.
I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.
The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.
Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.
The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.
Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress.
if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.
Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations, and conversely, her tenderness towards characters.
Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit.