Wit Quotes

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

— Alexander Pope

The well of true wit is truth itself.

— George Meredith

City wits, country humorists.

— Mason Cooley

“You cannot negotiate art.”

— Amit Kalantri

If folly disappeared, wit would starve.

— Mason Cooley

How now, wit! Whither wander you?

— William Shakespeare

Politics make me sick

— William Howard Taft

[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

— Plato

Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.

— John Dryden

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Solving wits and puzzles, in a way, helps to develop wit and ingenuity.

— Shakuntala Devi

Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.

— John Selden

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

— Douglas Adams

Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.

— John Dryden

Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.

— John Dryden

“An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.”

— Amit Kalantri

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

— Louis Kronenberger

“When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you…

— Amit Kalantri

I would love to have a battle of wits with you, Bison, but I doubt it would be a fair fight.' 'Shut…

— Derek Landy

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

— Sophocles

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

— Walter Savage Landor

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I like to live every day like it's my last." Shallan nodded. "And by that I mean lying in a puddle of…

— Brandon Sanderson

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we…

— John Stuart Mill

Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break…

— Bob Dylan

“True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods…

— Sol Luckman

[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:]…

— Sarah Bernhardt

Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you…

— Larry Heinemann

They who on meare curiositie (where no urgent necessitie requireth) try whether their children may not as birds be nourished without sucking,…

— William Gouge

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes…

— Benjamin Franklin

“I leaned against the desk, ran my hand over my father’s paperwork, and picked up a pen. Turning around, I shoved it…

— Shannon A. Thompson

It is very easy to shun someone who is deliberately cruel, and everyone loathes a man who is brutal and vicious. Such…

— Sharon Shinn

Ko Un's poems evoke the open creativity and fluidity of nature, and funny turns and twists of Mind. Mind is sometimes registered…

— Gary Snyder

Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of…

— William Shakespeare

Rush Limbaugh is a principled conservative, master broadcaster and stinging social critic who has won his mammoth following through his own energy,…

— Camille Paglia

Over his illustrious career, John Harris has explored the most challenging bioethical questions with insight, engaging wit, and eloquence. In Enhancing Evolution,…

— Ezekiel Emanuel

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud,…

— Walter Raleigh

When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we…

— Maya Angelou

When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald