Wit Quotes

Necessity can sharpen the wits even of children.

To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.

To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give.

I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.

Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.

True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.

What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.

Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.

After I published a book called Lincoln's Virtues a wit said that my next book should be Lincoln's Vices. But in my opinion that would be a short book!

Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.

A good wit will make use of anything.

A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?

How every fool can play upon the word!

If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.

This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares.

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

How now, wit! Whither wander you?

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian.

What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

Muster your wits; stand in your own defence.

Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.

A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!

Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit

My wits begin to turn.

Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.

thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.

If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit, The one's for use, the other useth it.

A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.", 1657)

If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.

Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous andshallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what youknow ain't so'.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

It is excellent / To have a giant's strenght / But it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant(Isabella)

The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you. Posthumus

I am not gamesome: I do lack some partof that quick spirit that is in Antony.

He has got no good red blood in his body, " said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses, " said Mrs. Cadwallader.

He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not'.

My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less -- um --'Hugh: 'Pained?

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it sho

Deliver me from my disciples!