Wit Quotes · Page 38

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

— Anonymous

If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones…

— Lord Chesterfield

“He felt that such a life in which one could display such sarcasm and wit was after all to a certain degree…

— Richmal Compton

Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to…

— Jack Vance

In the Ferrari or Jaguar, switchin' four lanes Wit' the top down screaming out money ain't a thang

— Jermaine Dupri

The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to…

— Roger L'Estrange

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

— Joseph Addison

Mab Jones' poetry is suffused with a cool wit and a wisdom beyond her years. She is a superb performance poet in…

— Phill Jupitus

It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They…

— Alan Turing

Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it…

— Jonathan Swift

Nirvana's success drew attention to a marketing demographic previously ignored by the mainstream, and inadvertently started a gold rush with advertising executives,…

— Kim Thayil

There is going to come a day when everyone here is going to need keen observation and wit to ridicule George W.…

— Jon Stewart

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit:…

— Thomas Jefferson

'The Observer's Very Short List' is another example of how the Observer Media Group offers its readers the most cutting-edge information, available…

— Jared Kushner

Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been…

— John Dryden

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be…

— Aristophanes

When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but…

— George Herbert

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

— Anthony Trollope

What a measly epitaph that would make: 'They saw it coming, but hadn't the wit to stop it happening.'

— Sara Parkin

Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.

— William Shakespeare

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

— Roger Ascham

So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun, These people ain't seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one

— Zack de la Rocha

“Remember, the masterpiece of your life is perpetually in progress—each date a fresh stroke on your canvas.”

— Léon RocheBlance

[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.

— Margot Asquith

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.

— Anonymous

“Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.”

— Amit Kalantri

I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to…

— Emma Watson

Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

— Margaret Cavendish

The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.

— Hippocrates

I value each woman for what she has to offer whether it be charm-beauty-wit-intelligence or humor but warmth is the quality I…

— Marlon Brando

I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response.

— Fran Lebowitz

Resounding…with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable.

— Kathi Appelt

wit, wit! - I look upon it always as a draught of air; it cools indeed, but one gets a stiff neck…

— Katharina Elisabeth Goethe

If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores,…

— Francis Bacon

“To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners”

— Jonathan Chamberlain Williams

You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.

— Benjamin Franklin

It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

— Denis Diderot

Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown; Both most are valued where they best are known.

— George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann