Wit Quotes · Page 20

“I wish for you the wisdom to mind your own business.”

— Steve Maraboli

Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

— William Shakespeare

An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.

— Baltasar Gracian

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

— William Shakespeare

Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Spanish—how shall I say this?—is like Portuguese spoken with a speech impediment.”

— Sol Luckman

What's up wit these new niggas? And why they think it all come so easy?

— Drake

Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.

— Tessa Dare

“I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.”

— Nicole Luiken

“Deal with your own stupid planet, you idiot. Don’t make me come over there and slap you around again.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Not obedience or feelings or respect, there is only one thing which people take seriously at all time and its "money".”

— Amit Kalantri

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

— Mark Twain

Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?

— Alexander Pope

Impertinent wits are a kind of insect which are in everybody's way and plentiful in all countries.

— Jean de la Bruyere

A net set up to catch fish may snare a duck; a mantis hunting an insect may itself be set upon by…

— Zicheng Hong

The most hopeful thing in the stories, I hope, is wit. I make it up. If I make up a world in…

— George Saunders

Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in…

— Edith Wharton

[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

Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That…

— Wynton Marsalis

Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of…

— Epictetus

There is certainly a higher percentage of wit in British comedy than in American comedy. What always tickles me is the way…

— Christopher Lloyd

“Yes, well, I'm not asking you to hide anything. Hiding won't help you. You can't very well hide from a pit, can…

— Gregory S. Close

Hey, have you heard that one about the difference between me, Wit, and my loutish cousin, Hilarity? No? Okay, so I walk…

— Chip Kidd

A fine and beautiful life lies before thee, because thou hast a lively mind and a good wit. Thine arms are very…

— Anonymous

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

Just as it is the province of science to find out what the facts of life are, to classify them and use…

— Lily Dougall

All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is…

— John Donne

“[S]ince you are angry at me without reason, you attack me harshly with, "Oh outrageous presumption! Oh excessively foolish pride! Oh opinion…

— Christine de Pizan

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

— Horace Walpole

“What is whiter than snow?' he said. 'The truth,' said Grania. 'What is the best colour?' said Finn. 'The colour of childhood,'…

— Augusta Gregory

“Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.”

— Brandon Sanderson

Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.

— George Herbert

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

— Philip Sidney

When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix

“The important thing to remember is not to forget”

— Benny Bellamacina

Well, I can throw a mean comeback, so there's that. I will crush them on wit.

— Rachel Caine

[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?

— Dorothy Parker