Wits Quotes

174 Wits quotes by 147 unique authors

Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my… — William Shakespeare
A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He… — Soren Kierkegaard
Of course itâ€™s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see… — Clive Barker
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed! — William Shakespeare
And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits. — C.S. Lewis
Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things. — Rick Riordan
When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower to align your… — Ray Bradbury
Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile — Homer
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
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
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
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
Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did," the officer observed. — Carolyn Keene
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

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