Wit Quotes · Page 13

You may be witty, but not satirical.

— Horace Greeley

“Hello, I am Oscar Wilde”

— Oscar Wilde

True wit has a grave intention.

— Mason Cooley

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

— Jacques Barzun

Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I bob and weave em, hit em wit that Mayweather JAB.

— Nicki Minaj

“The primary feature of women is not a 'beauty', it's a 'mystery'.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?”

— K. Ritz

If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.

— Baron de Montesquieu

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.

— Rick Riordan

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

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

— William Shakespeare

Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.

— William Shakespeare

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting…

— Bono

A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan.…

— Stacy Schiff

It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit;…

— John Milton

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

My ideal guy is my future husband. Not sure who he is yet, but he's out there. What impresses me in a…

— Tyler Oakley

Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my…

— Petrarch

Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Will you just put…

— Tamora Pierce

It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of…

— Desiderius Erasmus

There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it…

— James Boswell

For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or…

— Thomas Hobbes

The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of…

— Aldous Huxley

Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.

— Laurence Sterne

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

— William Penn

I'm a silly guy, I love wit and cynicism and sarcasm.

— Columbus Short

One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.

— John Dryden

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

— Anonymous