Wit Quotes · Page 21

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

— Jack Vance

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

— William Gouge

“A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.”

— Amit Kalantri

Wit is well-bred insolence.

— Aristotle

Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety…

— Henry Fielding

“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”

— Amit Kalantri

Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in…

— Diana Trilling

I've never, ever in my life touched a photographer. Some of the cruellest things I've ever said have been to photographers who…

— Russell Crowe

I prefer to have a great time and to keep my wits about me.

— Richard Branson

If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.

— William Shakespeare

An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a…

— L. Frank Baum

Reggie Watts is a most unusual talent: a huge vocal range, a natural musicality, and a sidesplitting wit. Is he a comedian?…

— Brian Eno

I would say that among my many huge emotional miscalculations was my taking a film career for granted. It is the most…

— Robert Downey, Jr

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

— Anonymous

A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.”

— Anna Quindlen

“Erudition is the crude residue of wilted harvests; wit: the meddlesome weed that wilts them.”

— Ashim Shanker

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

— Robert Priest

“Hello, I am Oscar Wilde”

— Oscar Wilde

The key to spontaneous wit is an unburdened mind.

— Darwin Ortiz

“Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.”

— Amit Kalantri

[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

— Plato

Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.

— Charles Caleb Colton