Wit Quotes · Page 40

“Twelve dead?” I said. “Jesus.”

— Dennis Lehane

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases…

— Anonymous

“Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them. Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less…

— Emma Thompson

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

— Stephen Leacock

“At what point does faith become insanity?”

— K. Ritz

Wit is the flower of the imagination.

— Livy

Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting.

— Robert Southey

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

— Madame de Stael

Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These…

— Joseph Addison

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

— Edward Abbey

There's a lot of heart to Bob's work that doesn't always get recognized because of all of the sensuality, dark statements and…

— Ann Reinking

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

— Philip Sidney

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“As if the right hand knew what the right hand was doing.”

— John Alejandro King aka The Covert Comic

Wit once bought is worth twice taught

— Russyb

We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases - as in the nature of things it must be…

— Albert J. Nock

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so…

— Francis Bacon

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever.

— Diana Vreeland

Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really…

— Anonymous

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

— Audrey Hepburn

So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun, These people ain't seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one

— Zack de la Rocha

If you put on an Oscar Wilde [play], it will interest those who are interested in Oscar Wilde. But it won't interest…

— John Hurt

A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan.…

— Stacy Schiff