Wit Quotes · Page 46

I enjoy my pettiness with a dose of wit.

— David Liss

“Remember, crowd doesn't care about common sense.”

— Amit Kalantri

[On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death.

— Barbara Stanwyck

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

— Benjamin Franklin

The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?

— Joanne Greenberg

Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet Could rule them both without ten women's wit.

— William Shakespeare

You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Without the assistance of eating and drinking, the most sparkling wit would be as heavy as a bad soufflé, and the brightest…

— Alexis Soyer

It doesn't phaze, I amaze wit my phrases Play this in your Jeep, so your neighbors lose some sleep (I wanna thank…

— Del tha Funkee Homosapien

People are always saying, 'You use irony,' and it's like, actually, we don't use irony: we use wit and playfulness and irreverence.

— Giles Deacon

“There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof I hope there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that…

— Jonathan Swift

Who said it first? We don't know, but very often we find the same ideas attributed to two different people. All we…

— Eden Phillpotts

“Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?” “Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.”

— Brandon Sanderson

Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit.

— Deborah Jowitt

Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should…

— Baltasar Gracian

Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.

— J. B. Priestley

We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as…

— Agnes Repplier

“When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run…

— Amit Kalantri

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love…

— Anonymous

Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

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

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

— Ambrose Bierce