Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.
No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' .
Wit resembles a coquette; those who the most eagerly run after it are the least favored.
Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.
I am shocked and slightly perturbed by his exuberance and quick wit. Knock Knock Channel 4
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.
Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.
Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.
Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.
Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
Freedom, where are you? Who holds you back? [...] The mother of wit and pleasure, Oh freedom!
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.
As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.
Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.
I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.
I never have wit until I am below stairs. [Fr., Je n'ai jamais d'esprit qu'au bas de l'escalier.]
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and 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.
Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it.
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?
I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.
What a measly epitaph that would make: 'They saw it coming, but hadn't the wit to stop it happening.'
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.