Wit Quotes

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There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of… — Pierre Bayle
His foe was folly and his weapon wit. — Anthony Hope
A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant. — William Congreve
To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a… — William Congreve
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it. — William Wycherley
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth. — Arthur Murphy
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as… — George Savile
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things. — Sophocles
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor… — Edward Fitzgerald
What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit. — Isabel Yosito
My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my… — Stephen Colbert
Dad was synonymous with his charm and wit and grace, and it was sort of the perfect way to go for him. — Jennifer Grant
Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment — Arnold Bennett
By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be… — Alexis De Tocqueville
The next best thing to being witty is to quote another's wit. — Christian Nevell Bovee
No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man — William Faulkner
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his… — Thomas Jefferson
To be a wit, intelligence is enough; to be a poet takes imagination. — Cardinalde Bernis
It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon. — Lord Chesterfield
Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of Nature. — Petronius

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