Wit Quotes

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My rapier wit hides my inner pain. — Cassandra Clare
Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that… — Kevin Brockmeier
I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not… — William Shakespeare
To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth. — Sue Grafton
Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce. — William Shakespeare
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneâ€™s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language… — George Sand
Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill… — William Shakespeare
Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it. — Germaine Greer
Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to… — Frederick Exley
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking. — Jonathan Swift
Muster your wits; stand in your own defence... — William Shakespeare
It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and… — Nick Hornby
Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear. — Jeaniene Frost
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is mad and sent… — William Shakespeare
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own… — Wilkie Collins
Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining them not all… — William Goldman
Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious… — Joan Lowery Nixon

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