Wit Quotes

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I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old. — Robert Frost
The more wit the less courage. — Thomas Fuller
I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to ambition and wit. — Ashley Greene
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. — Germaine Greer
The time the moon is going back, the blood that is in a person does be weakening, but when the moon is strong, the blood… — Lady Gregory
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond. — William Congreve
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let… — William Congreve
Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade. — Noel Coward
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory. — Benjamin Disraeli
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans… — John Donne
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. — John Dryden
Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government. — Elizabeth I
I was a big fan of how Johnny Carson hosted awards shows. Dick Cavett, as well, I think did a really great job of providing… — Neil Patrick Harris
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. — William Hazlitt
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. — George Herbert
A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps. — Carolina Herrera
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life. — Thomas Huxley
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of… — Thomas Jefferson
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. — John F. Kennedy

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