Wit Quote by Anonymous

Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.…

— Jonathan Swift

Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would…

— Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

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

— William Penn

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

— Ambrose Bierce

The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

— Dale Carnegie

He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

— William Shakespeare

When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious…

— Irvine Welsh

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the…

— Lowell Thomas

Tennessee Williams recognized that great theater begins with great talkers, and that great talkers obey two rules: they never sound like anyone else and…

— Edmund White

Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.

— William Shenstone

Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and…

— William Shakespeare

Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a…

— Jonathan Swift