Wit Quotes · Page 35

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily…

— Pliny the Elder

Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer.

— Tupac Shakur

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Your wit is always such a delight, Mr. Zeklos. I can barely contain myself around it.

— Richelle Mead

Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

— Plato

“No kind of social system can make you more happier and secure than your own money.”

— Amit Kalantri

People are always saying, 'You use irony,' and it's like, actually, we don't use irony: we use wit and playfulness and irreverence.

— Giles Deacon

Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.

— Danny Wallace

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

Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And…

— Alexander Pope

And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are…

— John McCain

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed…

— Walter Savage Landor

It was while Princess Margaret was attending a high-society party in New York that the hostess asked her politely how the Queen…

— Princess Margaret

Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into…

— Marshall McLuhan

“I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things…

— Amit Kalantri

For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of…

— Thomas Reid

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

— Roger Ascham

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

— William Shakespeare

“Remember, the masterpiece of your life is perpetually in progress—each date a fresh stroke on your canvas.”

— Léon RocheBlance

So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun, These people ain't seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one

— Zack de la Rocha

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.

— Anonymous

[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.

— Margot Asquith

“Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.”

— Amit Kalantri

I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to…

— Emma Watson

If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones…

— Lord Chesterfield

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

— Anonymous

Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to…

— Jack Vance

“He felt that such a life in which one could display such sarcasm and wit was after all to a certain degree…

— Richmal Compton

The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to…

— Roger L'Estrange

In the Ferrari or Jaguar, switchin' four lanes Wit' the top down screaming out money ain't a thang

— Jermaine Dupri

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

— Joseph Addison

What a measly epitaph that would make: 'They saw it coming, but hadn't the wit to stop it happening.'

— Sara Parkin

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

— Anthony Trollope

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be…

— Aristophanes

When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but…

— George Herbert

Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown; Both most are valued where they best are known.

— George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

— Denis Diderot

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

— Alexander Pope

Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann