Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound,… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me. — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success -- that's not what government is about, and that's not… — Christy Carlson Romano Copy Share Image
I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I value each woman for what she has to offer whether it be charm-beauty-wit-intelligence or humor but warmth is the quality I… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years. — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
My visions and fantasies are pretty standard. The only difference is I got to do it, while most of us haven't. Beyond… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Most of you probably didn't know that I have a new book out. Some guy put together a collection of my wit… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The effect of every sort of New Deal is to increase and prosper the criminal class. It teaches precisely what all professional… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If you have any helpful suggestions I'd be pleased to hear them. If all you can do is make snide insinuations then… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“You can't fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor,… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Man, I've been to jail. It was hell in there, but I survived, If they put me back, I'll come out again.… — Don King Copy Share Image
It was Will who broke the silence. "Very well. You have me alone in the corrider-" "Yes, yes," said Tessa impatiently,"and thousands… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Resounding…with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable. — Kathi Appelt Copy Share Image
wit, wit! - I look upon it always as a draught of air; it cools indeed, but one gets a stiff neck… — Katharina Elisabeth Goethe Copy Share Image
If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners” — Jonathan Chamberlain Williams Copy Share Image
“You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' . — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If I believe in something, I will fight for it, with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing.… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Whose the spiritual people pon earth. The Black people. Dem a deal wit God. And God no let dem down. — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
...but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is not a man of common sense who would not chuse to be agreeable in company; and yet, strange as it… — 1779 The Town and Country Magazine. vol. 11 Copy Share Image
Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
“They seek him here. They seek him there. Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in Heaven? Or is he in Hell?… — Sir Peter Blackney Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I'm not a quick wit. I'm only funny on paper. I mean, I'm not totally humorless! It's just that in person, I'm… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
