Wit Quotes · Page 16

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

— Henny Youngman

Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.

— John Dryden

Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.

— John Dryden

I love Tom Cruise. When Penelope Cruz is through with him, I'm next.

— Christina Aguilera

“An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.”

— Amit Kalantri

The key to spontaneous wit is an unburdened mind.

— Darwin Ortiz

Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.

— William Congreve

Freedom, where are you? Who holds you back? [...] The mother of wit and pleasure, Oh freedom!

— Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A woman of haughty and fierce carriage, of a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a…

— Anonymous

I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their…

— Audrey Hepburn

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

— John Gay

“Captain Billings," he drawled finally, "if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass, don't…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.

— Leo Tolstoy

“You will have relatively less problems to solve, if you don't confuse problems with inconveniences.”

— Amit Kalantri

My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then…

— Edith Sitwell

The Penny Post will do more for the circulation of ideas, for the fostering of domestic affections, for the humanizing of the…

— Harriet Martineau

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come…

— Arthur C. Clarke

That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a frog in…

— Clive Thompson

“It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed---the two bridemaids were duly inferior---her father gave her away---her mother stood…

— Jane Austen

I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations,…

— Dan Chaon

As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to…

— David Hume

Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used…

— David Suzuki

For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism…

— Blaise Cendrars

Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws,…

— John Dryden

“It was Colonel Parkman who upped stakes, crossed the border, and named our town, thus perversely commemorating a battle in which he'd…

— Margaret Atwood

The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable…

— Muriel Spark

Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain; The powers that wisdom would, improving,…

— George Crabbe

“Miss Taverner took the whip and reins in her hands, and mounted into the driving-seat, scorning assistance. "Take your orders from Miss…

— Georgette Heyer

We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the…

— Alice McDermott

A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit; Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild,…

— Jonathan Swift

sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .

— Maggie Stiefvater

As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.

— William Wycherley

The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

— Francis Bacon

Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.

— John Dryden

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Solving wits and puzzles, in a way, helps to develop wit and ingenuity.

— Shakuntala Devi

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

— Douglas Adams