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Best Wit Quotes by William Shakespeare
- This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite.
- I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
- I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.
- His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.
- 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,…
- I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!
- 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…
- thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.
- 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…
- Muster your wits; stand in your own defence...
- 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…
- For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men’s blood: I only speak right…
- Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.
- This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on…
- My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing…
- [S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
- Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice…
More Wit Quotes
- Wit is educated insolence. — Aristotle
- One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. — Jane Austen
- The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. — Avicenna
- If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. — Francis Bacon
- The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. — Francis Bacon
- Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. — Ambrose Bierce
- Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting… — Bono
- Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you… — Geraldine Brooks
- I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems… — Alton Brown
- I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other… — Carrie Brownstein
- It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues. — Jean de la Bruyere