Wit Quotes by William Shakespeare

When the age is in, the wit is out

— William Shakespeare

What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

— William Shakespeare

The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

— William Shakespeare

My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!

— William Shakespeare

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian.

— William Shakespeare

There's many a man hath more hair than wit.

— William Shakespeare

If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.

— William Shakespeare

How every fool can play upon the word!

— William Shakespeare

“I am not gamesome: I do lack some part of that quick spirit that is in Antony.”

— William Shakespeare

His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.

— William Shakespeare

His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.

— William Shakespeare

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

— William Shakespeare

Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

— William Shakespeare

Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.

— William Shakespeare

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

— William Shakespeare

This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails…

— William Shakespeare

Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so…

— William Shakespeare

Slanders, sir, for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging…

— William Shakespeare

Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is…

— William Shakespeare

Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.

— William Shakespeare

Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as…

— William Shakespeare

Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole;…

— William Shakespeare

Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of…

— William Shakespeare

I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage:…

— William Shakespeare

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe…

— William Shakespeare

Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is…

— William Shakespeare

To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans, Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful,…

— William Shakespeare

Muster your wits; stand in your own defence...

— William Shakespeare

What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!

— William Shakespeare

How now, wit! Whither wander you?

— William Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit.

— William Shakespeare

My wits begin to turn.

— William Shakespeare

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

— William Shakespeare

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

— William Shakespeare

They have a plentiful lack of wit.

— William Shakespeare

A good wit will make use of anything.

— William Shakespeare

There's many a man has more hair than wit.

— William Shakespeare

If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit, The one's for use, the other useth it.

— William Shakespeare

“Good madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool.”

— William Shakespeare

He is a heavy eater of beef. Me thinks it doth harm to his wit.

— William Shakespeare