Wit Quotes · Page 2

[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

— Plato

Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.

— Ethel Mumford

I have taken to living by my wits.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

— Benjamin Franklin

Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Digression is the soul of wit.

— Ray Bradbury

True wit never made us laugh.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Styles in wit change so.

— Lillian Hellman

“An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.”

— Amit Kalantri

As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.

— William Wycherley

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

— Francis Bacon

Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .

— Maggie Stiefvater

There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

— Max Brooks

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

— Euripides

Sweat pants, hair tied, chillin wit no makeup on. That's when you're the prettiest, I hope that you don't take it wrong.

— Drake

Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.

— Madame de Stael

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

— Michel de Montaigne

I really like sardonicism and wit. I love the writing of Joy Williams and Lorrie Moore. I like Tina Fey, Amy Schumer.

— Carrie Brownstein

I would love to have a battle of wits with you, Bison, but I doubt it would be a fair fight.' 'Shut…

— Derek Landy

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

— Sophocles

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

— Louis Kronenberger

Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.

— Walter Savage Landor

We pray for a generation of girls who will display their wit, their intelligence, their modest charm, their integrity, their loveliness rather…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break…

— Bob Dylan

“True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods…

— Sol Luckman

Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you…

— Larry Heinemann

They who on meare curiositie (where no urgent necessitie requireth) try whether their children may not as birds be nourished without sucking,…

— William Gouge

Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we…

— John Stuart Mill

“I leaned against the desk, ran my hand over my father’s paperwork, and picked up a pen. Turning around, I shoved it…

— Shannon A. Thompson

Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio…

— Vincent Canby

It is very easy to shun someone who is deliberately cruel, and everyone loathes a man who is brutal and vicious. Such…

— Sharon Shinn

Ko Un's poems evoke the open creativity and fluidity of nature, and funny turns and twists of Mind. Mind is sometimes registered…

— Gary Snyder

Rush Limbaugh is a principled conservative, master broadcaster and stinging social critic who has won his mammoth following through his own energy,…

— Camille Paglia

Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of…

— William Shakespeare

When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we…

— Maya Angelou

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud,…

— Walter Raleigh

Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without…

— William Shakespeare