Wit Quotes · Page 41

A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek…

— Alexander Pope

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

— Michel de Montaigne

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

— Colley Cibber

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

— Oscar O'Rourke

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

— William J. Clinton

Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor.…

— Florence King

Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

I am a master of foolhardy plans.

— Megan Whalen Turner

They have a plentiful lack of wit.

— William Shakespeare

Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

— John Dryden

If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.

— Frances Hardinge

“An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.”

— Amit Kalantri

We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only…

— Carl Jung

Do you need anything before I go? I want you to return my wits, I long to say.

— R.L. LaFevers

Whatever you smash, call an idol.

— John Alejandro King

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

— William Wycherley

“Asking someone else to drive your sports car is like asking someone else to kiss your girlfriend.”

— Amit Kalantri

Utilising wit in the thick of battle will be your key to victory.

— Hidetaka Miyazaki

O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things, That draws oblivion's curtains over kings; Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not, Their…

— Anne Bradstreet

A man may learn wit every day

— Proverb

“A true leader leads for the sake of love and his knowledge of the path, a bad leader redirects his followers to…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Americans just don't understand dry wit.

— John Oliver

Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining…

— Anonymous