Wit Quotes

True wit has a grave intention.

If folly disappeared, wit would starve.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

It takes a hell of a lot for a man to put up with me. I can be a handful.

There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.

Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and more time consuming, and leaves nothing for anybody to whistle.

I was in them million dollar meetings, he was cheatin. All up in the church, he was sneakin wit the deacon.

Anyway Ri Ri what rhymes wit your name really? Money got you vacationing in Chile

I'm the best now Anybody wit some money should invest now

MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest.

The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.

Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.

Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

Digression is the soul of wit.

A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.

I prefer to have a great time and to keep my wits about me.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

Humor is the pensiveness of wit.

Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.

Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.

Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.

Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.

The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.

The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful cadences and bleak, joyful wit are all his own.

Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.

What a measly epitaph that would make: 'They saw it coming, but hadn't the wit to stop it happening.'

So is there any part of you that’s not a lethal weapon? (Kiara) No. Even my wits are sharpened. (Nykyrian)

Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye.

Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.

We pray for a generation of girls who will display their wit, their intelligence, their modest charm, their integrity, their loveliness rather than their bodies and their sexual possibilities.

It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.

Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.

Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power.

It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it.

He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.