Wit Quotes · Page 37

For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.

— Alexander Pope

VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

— Ambrose Bierce

His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.

— William Shakespeare

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

— William Temple

In this time of national crises...per haps we would do well to spend a few minutes in considering projects which grace and…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

— Edward Abbey

Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of…

— Alexander Pope

Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.

— Sophocles

Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just…

— Alexander Pope

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

The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived…

— Matthew Arnold

The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit…

— Baruch Spinoza

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men’s blood: I…

— William Shakespeare

For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of…

— Raymond Dart

“Solitude has the potential to bring the best thoughts to you. When you are not involved in the emotional, entangled in the…

— Alok Mishra

“He wasn't aware of it but when he smiled he looked like an amiable bear. When he didn't smile he didn't look…

— Emma Goldrick

The liveliest effusions of wit and humour are simply what the reader of a novel has a right to expect.

— Howard Jacobson

But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman…

— William Wycherley

This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite.

— William Shakespeare

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and…

— Francis Bacon

“Captain Billings," he drawled finally, "if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass, don't…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.

— Leo Tolstoy

I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their…

— Audrey Hepburn

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

— John Gay

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

— Avicenna

“You will have relatively less problems to solve, if you don't confuse problems with inconveniences.”

— Amit Kalantri

I was at my wit's end trying to solve the world's problems. I was frustrated that I could do very little. That…

— Amala Akkineni

“Yes, yes. Aim for the sun. That way if you miss, at least your arrow will fall far away, and the person…

— Brandon Sanderson

A woman of haughty and fierce carriage, of a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a…

— Anonymous

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help…

— Alain-Rene Lesage

Freedom, where are you? Who holds you back? [...] The mother of wit and pleasure, Oh freedom!

— Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim

— Billy Graham

My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs…

— Edmond Rostand

Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

— Alexander Pope

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is…

— Ray Bradbury

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

— Antoine Rivarol

I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night…

— William Butler Yeats

To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!

— Alexander Pope