Wit Quotes

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.

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.

Moment I stop havin fun wit it, I'll be done wit it.

[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.

Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp.

To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise.

Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar - very swank: gives the impression you have lived in the East.

If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

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

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers

One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night / With some friend that has the wit.

[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.

Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.

Wit doesn't make girls pretty.

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially if the phrase is at someone else's expense.

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.

Without the assistance of eating and drinking, the most sparkling wit would be as heavy as a bad soufflé, and the brightest talent as dull as a looking-glass on a foggy day.

Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.

Whose the spiritual people pon earth. The Black people. Dem a deal wit God. And God no let dem down.

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

Wit is like caviar - it should be served in small portions and not spread about like marmalade.

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

In due course we arrive, if wit can be said that we ever fully arrive. The truth is there are destinations beyond destinations and do the confirmed sailor goes on tacking forever.

In the Ferrari or Jaguar, switchin' four lanes Wit' the top down screaming out money ain't a thang

I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me - I want him to be authentic.

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last.

He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

The essay must be artistically rendered: You must keep the reader engaged, whether with wit, conflict, mischief, and/or yes, with honesty.

Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.