Wit Quotes · Page 10

I think I owe my life to cork soles.

— Anthony Trollope

Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit

— Julian Fellowes

Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.

— William Shenstone

So many heads so many wits.

— John Heywood

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

— Anonymous

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

— Sir John Davies

“I've been 21 for many years now.”

— Stewart Stafford

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

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

— John Dryden

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

— Shakuntala Devi

Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .

— Maggie Stiefvater

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.

— William Congreve

“Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong.”

— Amit Kalantri

Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Impertinent wits are a kind of insect which are in everybody's way and plentiful in all countries.

— Jean de la Bruyere

If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?

— Alexander Pope

Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the…

— Washington Irving

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

— Alexander Pope

“Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be as pragmatic or as brutal.”

— Lee Child

So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last.

— Ethel Kennedy

Imagine sitting down to an eight ounce steak, and then, imagine the room filled wit 45 to 50 people with empty bowls...For…

— Frances Moore Lappé

there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder…

— Jane Austen

The most hopeful thing in the stories, I hope, is wit. I make it up. If I make up a world in…

— George Saunders

A net set up to catch fish may snare a duck; a mantis hunting an insect may itself be set upon by…

— Zicheng Hong

Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in…

— Edith Wharton

Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of…

— Epictetus

Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That…

— Wynton Marsalis

[When criticized for appearing bare-shouldered Madonna-like at a banquet:] A comparison between Madonna and me is a comparison between a strapless evening…

— Kim Campbell

I’m not a romantic, I’m a half-wit. Only stupid people would think I’m smart. I’m not something anyone should know. I’m a…

— Daniel Handler

The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or…

— Samuel Richardson

I seen her in the subway, on my way to Brooklyn. "Hello, good lookin, is this seat tooken?" On the A Train,…

— Rakim

And there are Ben [Jonson] and William Shakespeare in wit-combat, sure enough; Ben bearing down like a mighty Spanish war-ship, fraught with…

— Thomas Carlyle

“What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Scientific Man and the Bible'. By…

— H.L. Mencken

Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty…

— Virginia Woolf

Discovery is adventure. There is an eagerness, touched at times with tenseness, as man moves ahead into the unknown. Walking the wilderness…

— William O. Douglas

“Some men, as they age, grow kinder. I am not one of those, for I have seen how the cosmere can mistreat…

— Brandon Sanderson