Wit Quotes · Page 34

We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being…

— Margaret of Valois

“My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.”

— Oscar Wilde

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.

— Joseph Joubert

Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.

— Charles Lamb

For those with drive, wit, vision, ego and a masochistic outlook, there is always room.

— K Callan

“I am so obsessed with the cars that sometimes I feel like my heart is not a muscle, it's an engine.”

— Amit Kalantri

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy…

— Roger Ascham

I got more than a thing for you, tattoo wit a ink for you right over my heart girl, I'll do the…

— Drake

A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares…

— Horace Walpole

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in…

— Donald Barthelme

I write. I have read a great deal. I enjoy books. I like the wit of languages. Even French I like. I…

— Twyla Tharp

Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and…

— Richard Steele

Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt.…

— Blaise Cendrars

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may…

— James Boswell

“What have you done to your hair?” Mom’s broken voice said, pinning me back to this tiny hospital room. “Holy shit!” Icka…

— Phoebe Kitanidis

“Look, this is helping me out quite a bit, but could you just get to the punishment part? We're at the end…

— Rob Thomas

Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not…

— Lord Chesterfield

Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.

— John Selden

Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“Jimmy Murray, you are an ass,' said Aunt Ruth, angrily. 'Well, we're cousins,' agreed Cousin Jimmy pleasantly.”

— L.M. Montgomery

Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.

— John Milton

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

— John Oliver

You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?

— D. H. Lawrence

“You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.”

— Amit Kalantri

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude…

— Agnes Repplier

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than…

— Joseph Addison

“A true leader leads for the sake of love and his knowledge of the path, a bad leader redirects his followers to…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

— Jane Austen

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

— Peggy Noonan

It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's…

— Yehudi Menuhin

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of…

— William Shakespeare

Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate…

— Germaine Greer

The essay must be artistically rendered: You must keep the reader engaged, whether with wit, conflict, mischief, and/or yes, with honesty.

— Phillip Lopate

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

— Ada Leverson

You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Breakin down the weed about to make a plane, a hundred niggas wit me all reppin taylor gang.

— Wiz Khalifa

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth,…

— John Donne

Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.

— Hubert H. Humphrey