Wit Quotes
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A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
William Congreve
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When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building: It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.
Sarah Bernhardt
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A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!
William Shakespeare
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Irreverence is easy - whats hard is wit.
Tom Lehrer
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One of the problems I see with these comics on television, particularly cable television, is, since you can say anything in terms of sex and scatological references and so on, therefore, you should do it. So they all limit themselves to these subjects and this vocabulary. My objection is that it is a lack of articulateness. Irreverence is easy, but what is hard is wit. Wit is what these comedians lack.
Tom Lehrer
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I was in them million dollar meetings, he was cheatin. All up in the church, he was sneakin wit the deacon.
Nicki Minaj
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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Aristotle
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Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.
William Kennedy
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Anyway Ri Ri what rhymes wit your name really? Money got you vacationing in Chile
Nicki Minaj
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Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.
Virginia Woolf
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Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.
William Shakespeare
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I'm the best now Anybody wit some money should invest now
Nicki Minaj
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As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.
William Wycherley
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Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
William Penn
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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 broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
William Shakespeare
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The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Those who object to wit are envious of it.
William Hazlitt
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Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
William Shakespeare