Wit Quotes

At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

My wit is like your legs," said Xochi. " It would be selfish of me to keep it hidden.

Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.

As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.

Malice blunts the point of wit.

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

I'll be right here in my spot wit a lil more cash than I already got trippin off you cause you had your shot

The girl that I wanna save is like a danger to my health Try being wit somebody that wanna be somebody else.

How did I end up right here wit you after all the things that I been through. It's been one of those days you try and forget about take a shot and let it out.

Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.

From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit.

There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.

True wit never made us laugh.

Styles in wit change so.

If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching.

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.

Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.

When the age is in, the wit is out

A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.

The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

I'd like to introduce a man with a lot of charm, talent, and wit. Unfortunately, he couldn't be here tonight, so instead . . .

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship.

His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.

He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

The finest wits have their sediment.

Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

Those who object to wit are envious of it.

Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.

The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.

Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.

A Christian's wit is offensive light, A beam that aids, but never grieves the sight; Vig'rous in age as in the flush of youth, 'Tis always active on the side of truth.

Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.

Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, If you listen to popular rumour; From morning to night he's so joyous and bright, And he bubbles with wit and good humour!

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.