Wit Quotes · Page 8

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

— Oscar Wilde

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

— Thomas Becon

Wit has as few true judges as painting.

— William Wycherley

Wit is a comic's defense weapon.

— Bob Crane

How every fool can play upon the word!

— William Shakespeare

Wit once bought is worth twice taught

— Russyb

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

— Ellis Peters

Where there is a will there's a law suit.

— Ethel Mumford

Shoulda sent a thank you note, you little hoe Now Imma wrap your coffin wit a bow

— Nicki Minaj

Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!

— William Shakespeare

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

— Mark Twain

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

— George Herbert

“It is the curse of the competent―not to be called upon.”

— Robert Priest

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

— Alexander Pope

There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.

— Alexander Pope

I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.

— Mike Tyson

There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever…

— Hannah More

“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.”

— Amit Kalantri

“This lot won't suffer you forever.I wouldn't see you dead by their knives; I see a fine man within you Wit." "Yes,…

— Brandon Sanderson

A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of…

— Renata Adler

Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle…

— Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr

This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

— Philip Sidney

Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of…

— Epictetus

Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That…

— Wynton Marsalis

[When criticized for appearing bare-shouldered Madonna-like at a banquet:] A comparison between Madonna and me is a comparison between a strapless evening…

— Kim Campbell

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man…

— Alexander Pope

Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of…

— Joseph Joubert

A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better…

— Samuel Johnson

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a…

— Orison Swett Marden

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of…

— Franz Kafka

...the wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as…

— Israel Zangwill

I mean everything's a lot more smoother. It's just calm. IN the beginning, I had the typical attitude of a young rapper…

— The Notorious B.I.G

I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

An expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into…

— Marshall McLuhan

I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of…

— Rita Mae Brown

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties…

— George Sand

Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels…

— David Hume