Wit Quotes · Page 32

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear.

— Jeaniene Frost

Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.

— Daniel Defoe

If you can't convince them [with your logic] then just confound them [with your wit.]

— Harry S. Truman

One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves…

— Tobias Smollett

Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken…

— Joseph Addison

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

— Madame de Stael

To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise.

— Saadi

What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was…

— Ben Katchor

I particularly like Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman. Both writers have wit and imagination and the breadth of stories they tell coupled…

— Michael Ball

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

When we had to survive on our wits, gather and kill our food from scratch and be more at the mercy of…

— Philippa Perry

Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool…

— Esther Dyson

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I had developed a survival skill of using my wit to score for myself. If a scene was dying, I'd lob in…

— Harold Ramis

As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his…

— Virginia Woolf

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

— William Shakespeare

It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why…

— Seneca the Younger

We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the…

— Alice McDermott

“Miss Taverner took the whip and reins in her hands, and mounted into the driving-seat, scorning assistance. "Take your orders from Miss…

— Georgette Heyer

I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a…

— Wallace Stegner

A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit; Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild,…

— Jonathan Swift

The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable…

— Muriel Spark

For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism…

— Blaise Cendrars

We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as…

— Agnes Repplier

Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp.

— Marilyn vos Savant

Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should…

— Baltasar Gracian

You beef wit me, I'm-a even the score equally. Take you on Jerry Springer and beat your ass legally.

— Eminem

“Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.”

— Amit Kalantri

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually…

— Frank Muir

Only those who haven't got the wit to speak for themselves would ever want their clothes to do it for them.

— Julie Burchill

“Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?” “Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Not obedience or feelings or respect, there is only one thing which people take seriously at all time and its "money".”

— Amit Kalantri

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

— Mark Twain

“Deal with your own stupid planet, you idiot. Don’t make me come over there and slap you around again.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.”

— Nicole Luiken

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.

— Tessa Dare

Ohhh, I'm in luv, I'm in luv I'm in luv, I'm in luv wit chu And there ain't nothin nobody can say…

— Da Brat

“Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.”

— Amit Kalantri