Wit Quotes · Page 41

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

— William Shakespeare

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with…

— William Hazlitt

[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

— William Shakespeare

“This lot won't suffer you forever.I wouldn't see you dead by their knives; I see a fine man within you Wit." "Yes,…

— Brandon Sanderson

“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.”

— Amit Kalantri

There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever…

— Hannah More

I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.

— Mike Tyson

This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Women of no beauty may yet be flattered to believe they possess some; others of a moderate share that they have a…

— Norm MacDonald

Not a time with him passed that I didn't say, "You should've been a comedian." [Vincent Price] was hilarious. He was just…

— Cassandra Peterson

I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride, Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide. Do not extort thy reasons…

— William Shakespeare

Instead of critics reviewing my movies, now what they're really doing is trying to match wits with me. Every time they review…

— Quentin Tarantino

“ [On Oscar Wilde:] "If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit;…

— Dorothy Parker

True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight…

— Alexander Pope

“You will find her manners beyond anything I can describe; and your wit and vivacity, I think, must be acceptable to her,…

— Jane Austen

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right…

— William H. Seward

Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle…

— Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr

A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of…

— Renata Adler

What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit,…

— Jensen Ackles

I'll be right here in my spot wit a lil more cash than I already got trippin off you cause you had…

— Drake

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

— Philip Sidney

“Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.”

— Amit Kalantri

There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever…

— Hannah More

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

— Maya Angelou

There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.

— Michel de Montaigne

Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

— Van Wyck Brooks

Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but…

— Laurence Sterne

But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human…

— Alexander Pope

Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth…

— Charles Caleb Colton

So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last.

— Ethel Kennedy

“Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be as pragmatic or as brutal.”

— Lee Child

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

— Alexander Pope

Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the…

— Washington Irving

If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?

— Alexander Pope

Impertinent wits are a kind of insect which are in everybody's way and plentiful in all countries.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

I have never been one for musicians. I know girls are supposed to go crazy for frontmen who close their eyes when…

— Julie Klausner

“He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one…

— Jamie Weise