Wit Quotes by 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

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

— 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

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

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— 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

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?

— 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

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian.

— William Shakespeare

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

— 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

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

— 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