Wit Quotes

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Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of chastity well armed,… — William Shakespeare
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. — Frank Zappa
Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is… — Tom Robbins
Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good… — Terri Windling
These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's… — Michael Cunningham
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed! — William Shakespeare
Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas. — Patrick O'Brian
if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure. — C.S. Lewis
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. — James Thurber
And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits. — C.S. Lewis
Hey, have you heard that one about the difference between me, Wit, and my loutish cousin, Hilarity? No? Okay, so I walk into a bar,… — Chip Kidd
You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them. — Benjamin Franklin
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by… — Virginia Woolf
When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he rhymed her eyes… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things. — Rick Riordan
True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That… — Alexander Pope
When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower to align your… — Ray Bradbury
Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile — Homer
Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones. — Ray Bradbury
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which… — Aristotle

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