Wit Quotes

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuni...

Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's fathe...

I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.

Look, this is helping me out quite a bit, but could you just get to the punishment part? We're at th...

The more wit the less courage.

Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.

Three,' reckoned the captain, 'ourselves make seven, counting Hawkins, here. Now, about honest hands...

I didn't cross the line, you drew it in after I traversed it.

When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a ci...

Too caustic? To hell with cost we'll make the picture anyhow. Every director bites the hand that la...

NE'TWORK: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the inte...

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole Its body brevity and wit its soul.

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns"(After Brooke White of season 7 on america...

You sounded like Dolly parton on helium."(After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang he...

If you want to be witty work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.

Going to marry her? Impossible! You mean a part of her; he could not marry her all himself. It would...

Going to marry her? Impossible! You mean a part of her; he could not marry her all himself. It would...

There was a party of well-dressed people with Gilt, and as they progressed accoss the room the whole...

(About a cookbook...)- What about this one? Maids of Honor?- Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Ho...

You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself?-Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.

Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through t...

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from ro...

The more wit the less courage.

Men never think their fortunes too great nor their wit too little.

The more wit the less courage.

Men never think their fortunes too great nor their wit too little.

The more wit the less courage.

Men never think their fortunes too great nor their wit too little.

The more wit the less courage.

Men never think their fortunes too great nor their wit too little.

Men never think their fortunes too great nor their wit too little.

The more wit the less courage.

Men never think their fortunes too great nor their wit too little.

The more wit the less courage.

Men never think their fortunes too great nor their wit too little.

The more wit the less courage.

Men never think their fortunes too great nor their wit too little.

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disap...

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what r...

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

I have great affection for you, Roy" I answered, "but I don't think you are the sort of person I'd c...

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...

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well express'd.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

True wit is nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed;What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'dWhat oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd;Something w...

You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.

I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being u...

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.", 1657)

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it sho

One can have a wit, but not a witless

This lot won't suffer you forever.I wouldn't see you dead by their knives; I see a fine man within y...

Does the king know you're back?""Nope! I'm trying to think of a properly dramatic way to inform him....

Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledg...

I hope to return. I’ll do so if I’m not killed. Probably will anyway.

To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in y...

I’ll admit, Jasnah, that I empathize with your skepticism, but I don’t agree with it. I just think y...

What you did tonight was clever,” Wit said. “You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men ...

Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?”“Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.

For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind di...

This is a lot more satisfying," he said, "when I have intelligent life whom I can render awed, rapt ...

Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.

Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait.""I always thought that was '...

I had such plans for this evening. The pursuit of blind drunkenness and wayward women was my goal. B...

So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.''Was that befo...

If you cant beat 'em cooperate 'em to death!

Lingerer, my brain is on fire with impatience; and you tarry so long!

Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to gi...

Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.

Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliab...

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sou...

Wit has truth in it wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Sometimes you have to break a rule to save the system.

You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your...

He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man)...

There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is si...

Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and ...

Captain Billings," he drawled finally, "if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are so...

I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is i...

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

He drew a circle that shut me out-Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout.But love and I had the wit to wi...

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appre...

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.Photographer: 'H...