Wit Quotes · Page 37

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

— Stephen Leacock

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and…

— William Penn

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor…

— Robert Benton

Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole;…

— William Shakespeare

Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“I have already made this paper too long, for which I must crave pardon, not having now time to make it shorter.”

— Benjamin Franklin

[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.

— Tallulah Bankhead

Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon

— Tony Blair

... it is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the…

— Maria W. Stewart

A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force…

— Lloyd Paul Stryker

This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

I'm sorry I stood there like a half-wit, Count Petroff," she told him matter-of-factly, "but I was a bit--surprised. After all, it's…

— Johanna Lindsey

I was gearing up for it. I took some singing lessons. And I opened my mouth, and Atom promptly said, 'That's not…

— Colin Firth

I think a lot of people underestimate the physical demands required to be a top model. It's not just what you're doing…

— Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of…

— Blaise Pascal

Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.

— Thomas Nashe

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age…

— Jonathan Swift

Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit.

— Deborah Jowitt

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.

— Samuel Johnson

Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.

— J. B. Priestley

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

— Francis Bacon

I get it, I get it. I get it, I get it. Your hustle don't ever go unnoticed baby, I'm wit you,…

— Drake

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

— Tom Robbins

Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all.

— William Shakespeare

As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their…

— Edward Young

That wit is truly amiable, which gladdens and enlivens every thing, which shines with a lustre gentle, but not faint, and powerful,…

— Jeremiah Seed

“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." ( Letter 16 , 1657)”

— Blaise Pascal

Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.

— Elizabeth I

I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.

— Maria Thayer

Wit is not levelled so much at the muscles as at the heart; and the latter will sometimes smile when there is…

— George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against…

— Aldous Huxley

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

— Aphra Behn

The essay must be artistically rendered: You must keep the reader engaged, whether with wit, conflict, mischief, and/or yes, with honesty.

— Phillip Lopate

Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate…

— Germaine Greer

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of…

— William Shakespeare

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

— Ada Leverson

Breakin down the weed about to make a plane, a hundred niggas wit me all reppin taylor gang.

— Wiz Khalifa