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Wit Quotes by William Shakespeare
- What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!
- A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
- Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to…
- They have a plentiful lack of wit.
- Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
- I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.
- He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
- He is a heavy eater of beef. Me thinks it doth harm to his wit.
- The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
- Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I…
- Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends;…
- How now, wit! Whither wander you?
- When the age is in, the wit is out
- My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!
- Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian.
- What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.
- This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares...
- Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.
- Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.
- Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
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