Wit Quotes · Page 37

I love every-day senses, every-day wit and entertainment; a man who is only good on holidays, is good for very little.

— Lord Chesterfield

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for…

— David Hume

“His father was an ass and he is an ass. I imagine sooner than I should like I shall be playing uncle…

— T. A. Miles

“By doing ordinary actions efficiently you will become the best among ordinary, but you will not be an extraordinary.”

— Amit Kalantri

It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a…

— Luc de Clapiers

Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.

— Robert Benton

I was in them million dollar meetings, he was cheatin. All up in the church, he was sneakin wit the deacon.

— Nicki Minaj

Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and…

— Anonymous

In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and…

— Joseph Addison

Education always continues. We all know that beauty fades, but what stays is a person's personality, their sense of humor, their wit,…

— Stephanie Seymour

If you were a kid in the 1950s, and you got nightmares from a story in a horror comic book, you have…

— Richard Corliss

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity,…

— Walter Savage Landor

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Pierre Bayle

you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do…

— Lucretius

New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

— James Agate

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not…

— Charles Lamb

When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and…

— Honore de Balzac

Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.

— Roger L'Estrange

We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Baby girl you need to stop it, all that pride and self esteem got you angry bout this girl I'm wit in…

— Drake

Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.

— Alexander Pope

From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it…

— John D. MacDonald

What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and…

— Walter Scott

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

— Anonymous

“When you have a wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.”

— Criss Jami

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the…

— Paul McCartney

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.

— Douglas William Jerrold

My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more…

— Winston Churchill

True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.

— Alexander Pope

An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a…

— L. Frank Baum

Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.

— John Brown

There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

— Dorothy Parker

It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing…

— Robert Motherwell