Wit Quotes · Page 34

Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.

— Robert Boswell

He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

— William Shakespeare

“Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.”

— Amit Kalantri

Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and…

— Franz Grillparzer

You know, Gilan, sarcasm isn't the lowest form of wit. It's not even wit at all." -Halt

— John Flanagan

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this…

— Jean de la Bruyere

They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said. China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.

— Derek Landy

Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software,…

— Adam Gopnik

Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest,…

— Roger Ebert

When doing family entertainment, you don't actually worry about kids. You know what you can't do. But in terms of sensibility and…

— Nina Jacobson

In The Tricky Art of Co-Existing, Sandi Toksvig navigates life's little dilemmas with wit and not-so-common sense. You'll learn the strange history…

— William Poundstone

I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full…

— William Habington

Slanders, sir, for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging…

— William Shakespeare

All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally…

— George Berkeley

To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that…

— Ambrose Bierce

Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them.

— Jeremiah Seed

The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.

— Horace Walpole

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

— Carolina Herrera

Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless…

— William Kennedy

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

— Mary Astell

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

— Pythagoras

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

— Norman Mailer

Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit…They have to fit in context.

— James J. Kilpatrick

It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence…

— George D. Prentice

Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

— Alexander Pope

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an…

— Emily Post

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

— Homer

We are given two of most of our body parts, either opposites or similarities, but not the tongue; except for my wife's…

— Kyle Bradley

Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

My wit is like your legs," said Xochi. " It would be selfish of me to keep it hidden.

— Dan Wells

It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.

— Thomas Hobbes

Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and…

— Ray Manzarek

Wit is like caviar - it should be served in small portions and not spread about like marmalade.

— Noel Coward

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“Well, the truth is that his mother had six miscarriages, and three of them survived.”

— Oscar O'Rourke

He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit…

— Edwin Markham

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.

— William Hazlitt

[To the man who came up to her at a party and exclaimed effusively, 'Tallulah! I haven't seen you for 41 years!':]…

— Tallulah Bankhead