Wit Quotes · Page 53

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

— Elbert Hubbard

I have to match wits with the ads. Like, there's pop-ups that, like, move around and you have to chase them like…

— Terry Gross

Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at…

— Frances Parkinson Keyes

Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

— Winston Churchill

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

— William Shakespeare

You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.

— Benjamin Franklin

As we celebrate President Reagan's remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a man of strong character, deep conviction, unforgettable charm,…

— Jim Ramstad

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.

— William Shakespeare

In an address before the "Academia," which had been organized to combat "science falsely so called," Cardinal Manning declared his abhorrence of…

— Andrew Dickson White

[To the man who came up to her at a party and exclaimed effusively, 'Tallulah! I haven't seen you for 41 years!':]…

— Tallulah Bankhead

Not that the moderns are born with more wit than their predecessors, but, finding the world better furnished at their coming into…

— Jeremy Collier

I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known…

— Horace Walpole

There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer…

— Charles Caleb Colton

You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready.

— Henny Youngman

To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.

— Sue Grafton

[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.

— Margot Asquith

“To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners”

— Jonathan Chamberlain Williams

The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but…

— Edith Wharton

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.

— Douglas William Jerrold

As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their…

— Edward Young

Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit…

— Margaret Cavendish

The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown.

— Goldwin Smith

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

— Oscar Wilde

In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.

— W. Somerset Maugham