Wit Quotes · Page 17

“You can't take a crash course in comedy, there is no crash course in comedy.”

— Amit Kalantri

Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.

— Edward Young

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

— Anonymous

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

— Colley Cibber

And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.

— Anonymous

“I wouldn’t be caught dead sacrificing myself for this country.”

— Sol Luckman

There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.

— Benjamin Haydon

“I like to live every day like it's my last." Shallan nodded. "And by that I mean lying in a puddle of…

— Brandon Sanderson

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

— Joseph Joubert

Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hard core life I toast to ex flaw, therefore I live raw and went to war wit the law.

— Big L

MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time…

— Norman Mailer

As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.

— Pythagoras

A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.

— Carolina Herrera

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from…

— Mary Astell

I am grateful to Stacy Schiff first of all because she can write a sentence-because she offers us her scholarship with wit,…

— Tracy Kidder

The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A…

— Anne Perry

realized that at a level I'd never been conscious we'd been engaged in a game of wits for years. I suppose most…

— Walter Kirn

Without the assistance of eating and drinking, the most sparkling wit would be as heavy as a bad soufflé, and the brightest…

— Alexis Soyer

My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm…

— Joan Cusack

A witty and informative professor posits that more authors do not choose titles borrowed from Shakespeare's sonnets and plays for the reason…

— Thomas C Foster

There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven't the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it…

— Janet Morris

Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and…

— Isaac D'Israeli

I knew the man up until our divorce - after that I didn't know the man, but it didn't stop me caring…

— Cynthia Lennon

“There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I…

— John Gower

If you don't think, and you have no wit and you have so many hangups that you can't look beyond your cup…

— Tori Amos

My life has had meaning, with the friendships full and valuable and essential to me. My children, Steve, Leslie, and Sam, are…

— Lauren Bacall

“Jordan, there isn't a straight woman or gay man alive who wouldn't drop everything to have dinner with you. I've been in…

— Matthew Haldeman-Time

Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively invention—these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies,…

— Peter Ho Davies

“I spent the last Friday of summer vacation spreading hot, sticky tar across the roof of George Washington High. My companions were…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.

— Pierre-Jean de Beranger

An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.

— Benjamin Franklin

Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.

— George Herbert

He is a heavy eater of beef. Me thinks it doth harm to his wit.

— William Shakespeare

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

— Jonathan Swift

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.

— Patrick O'Brian

He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.

— Plato

He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.

— George D. Prentice