Wit Quotes

As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our relationship.

Pushing me away so I give her space, awww. Dealing wit a heart that I didn't break.

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

Wit is well-bred insolence.

A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.

As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.

The more wit we have, the less satisfied we are with it.

Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

My wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.

I get it, I get it. I get it, I get it. Your hustle don't ever go unnoticed baby, I'm wit you, I'm wit it.

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises, but it never cuts or pierces.

Stuart Rojstaczer writes with enormous wit, style and empathy, and The Mathematician's Shiva is a big-hearted, rollickingly funny novel that's impossible to put down. A tremendous debut.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.

Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them.

Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.

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 on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know.

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

Rollin wit a posse full of paranoid drugdealaz!

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

Sweat pants, hair tied, chillin wit no makeup on. That's when you're the prettiest, I hope that you don't take it wrong.

I got more than a thing for you, tattoo wit a ink for you right over my heart girl, I'll do the unthinkable.

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.

Silence is the wit of fools.

He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted

Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man.

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 temper.

Never be less interesting than your refrigerator magnets.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

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.

The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.

Don't set your wit against a child.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.

Irreverence is easy - whats hard is wit.

Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.