Wit Quotes · Page 13

[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.

— Elizabeth I

I think rappers are the fall guy because some of us don't have the wits to point the finger back. The thing…

— Nelly

The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too…

— Paul Krassner

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

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

My rapier wit hides my inner pain.

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Andrew Carnegie

Comedy comes with a bit of sarcasm, wit and edginess.

— Kiku Sharda

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

— Ray Bradbury

With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land…

— Maggie Shipstead

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

— Leigh Hunt

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends.…

— Tony Visconti

When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower…

— Ray Bradbury

A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express herself without resorting herself…

— Ari Marmell

The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my…

— David Lehman

Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of…

— Alexander Pope

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Foolish jokers are thick on the ground, and it rains insects of that sort everywhere. A good joker is a rarity; even…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all…

— Honore de Balzac

During the Second War, the U.S.O. sent special issues of the principal American magazines to the Armed Forces, with the ads omitted.…

— Marshall McLuhan

Yeah, man. It's time to let de people get good herbs and smoke. Government's a joke. All dey wan' is ya smoke…

— Bob Marley

The time the moon is going back, the blood that is in a person does be weakening, but when the moon is…

— Lady Gregory

Freedom, where are you? Who holds you back? [...] The mother of wit and pleasure, Oh freedom!

— Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage

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

— Anthony Trollope