Wit Quotes

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One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit. — Jean de la Bruyere
It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused. — William Davenant
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude. — John Stuart Blackie
Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the… — Adam Gopnik
Evidently, quality of wits is more important than quantity. — Claudius
Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise,… — Honore de Balzac
My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs do from the… — Edmond Rostand
Over his illustrious career, John Harris has explored the most challenging bioethical questions with insight, engaging wit, and eloquence. In Enhancing Evolution, Harris does it… — Ezekiel Emanuel
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are… — John Selden
A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his… — Blake Bailey
No one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of… — Cub Koda
Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of… — Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.
Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a… — Jack Vance
Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of almost anonymous American… — William S. McFeely
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit — Stephen Leacock
A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit of the words.… — James Fenton
He is a heavy eater of beef. Me thinks it doth harm to his wit. — William Shakespeare
Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is. — Philip Sidney
Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out. — George Herbert

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