Wit Quotes · Page 32

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

— Jean de la Bruyere

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.

— Josh Billings

Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.

— David R. Brower

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.

— Harry Hay

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the…

— Pierre Bayle

Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to.

— George Horne

To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not…

— Tom Stoppard

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

— Jonathan Swift

If, as Marshall McLuhan once taught us, the medium is the message, then Derfner's medium-this lovely, discursive amalgamation of wit and smarts-is…

— Philip Gambone

That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my…

— Siri Hustvedt

Reggie Watts is a most unusual talent: a huge vocal range, a natural musicality, and a sidesplitting wit. Is he a comedian?…

— Brian Eno

I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems…

— Alton Brown

Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet…

— Callimachus

What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a…

— Gail Caldwell

I am not here to judge whether people are locked in poverty because of themselves or because of the society in which…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

I can't stay friends with anyone who doesn't have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it…

— Alan King

“The creative process is a love story that never ends. The ideas are like suitors competing for your attention. You may have…

— Jaeda DeWalt

I've traveled all over the world for the Institute, but I never dreamed I'd meet someone like you." "Strong?" A chuckle escaped…

— Gena Showalter

Traveling around is what I Like to Do. Me And my boy Arab we live on the road. Doing shows is what…

— Soulja Boy

Hey, have you heard that one about the difference between me, Wit, and my loutish cousin, Hilarity? No? Okay, so I walk…

— Chip Kidd

A fine and beautiful life lies before thee, because thou hast a lively mind and a good wit. Thine arms are very…

— Anonymous

In an address before the "Academia," which had been organized to combat "science falsely so called," Cardinal Manning declared his abhorrence of…

— Andrew Dickson White

Reagan took an approach to the Cold War dramatically different from any other US President. To wit, he thought we should win.…

— Ann Coulter

[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return…

— Thomas Sprat

To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be…

— Aldous Huxley

Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power.

— Steve Morse

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the…

— Pierre Charron

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

— Maurice Chevalier

His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.

— William Shakespeare

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.

— Elizabeth Montagu

There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

— Jane Austen

It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity.

— Luc de Clapiers

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

— Douglas William Jerrold

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so…

— Francis Bacon

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

— Lou Brock

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.

— Leigh Hunt

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold,…

— Germaine Greer

A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

— Alexander Pope

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

— John Stuart Blackie

Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety…

— Henry Fielding