Wit Quotes · Page 54

The wit of men compared to that of women is like rouge compared to the rose.

— Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix

I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.

— John Lyly

and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the…

— Charles Bukowski

Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such…

— E. F. Benson

Anyway Ri Ri what rhymes wit your name really? Money got you vacationing in Chile

— Nicki Minaj

[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.

— Maria Thayer

I'm always very grateful for stories about the great coffeehouse wits in Vienna at the turn of the last century. People would…

— David Salle

I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled.

— Janice Dickinson

The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.

— Ovid

These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify…

— George Eliot

In this time of national crises...per haps we would do well to spend a few minutes in considering projects which grace and…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

[When criticized for appearing bare-shouldered Madonna-like at a banquet:] A comparison between Madonna and me is a comparison between a strapless evening…

— Kim Campbell

Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted…

— Agnes Repplier

This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.

— Samuel Johnson

Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.

— John Selden

O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!

— Elizabeth I

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

— George Herbert

Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace,…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the…

— Amelia B. Edwards

As for me, my literary theory, like my politics, is based chiefly upon one main idea, to wit, the idea of freedom.…

— H. L. Mencken

He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.

— Plato

Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“You want me to invite him to dinner.” “I want you to invite him to dinner,” she agreed. “You know,” he said,…

— Matthew Haldeman-Time

Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they…

— Henry David Thoreau