Wit Quotes

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Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality — Aphra Behn
I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse. — Barack Obama
Half-wits talk much, but say little. — Benjamin Franklin
I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored. — Ray Bradbury
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or… — W. Somerset Maugham
and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits,… — Charles Bukowski
When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we… — Maya Angelou
It is very easy to shun someone who is deliberately cruel, and everyone loathes a man who is brutal and vicious. Such people have a… — Sharon Shinn
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power. — Francis Bacon
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir menâ€™s blood: I only speak right… — William Shakespeare
She looked so beautiful in the moonlight, but it wasn't only the way she looked, it was what was inside her, everything from her intelligence… — Terry Goodkind
Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did," the officer observed. — Carolyn Keene
You can't teach an old dogma new tricks. — Dorothy Parker
Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies. — Oliver Goldsmith
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could… — Tom Robbins
Have you seen them?" he asked. Arrow looked at him disinterestedly. Will frowned. Not talking, eh?" he said. "Maybe you're a little hoarse." He cackled… — John Flanagan
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....… — Andrew Carnegie
No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are going… — Nick Harkaway
I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves — P.G. Wodehouse

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