Wit Quotes
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Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
William Congreve -
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
Euripides
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thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.
William Shakespeare -
They have a plentiful lack of wit.
William Shakespeare -
A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.
William Shenstone -
He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.
Plato -
It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.
Seneca the Younger -
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.
Tobias Smollett
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Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.
William Hazlitt -
Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.
Francis Bacon -
The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.
Russell Baker -
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
William Shakespeare -
Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
Douglas Jerrold -
My wits begin to turn.
William Shakespeare
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.
William Hazlitt -
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
Thomas Hobbes -
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 that difficult.
William Goldman -
You beef wit me, I'm-a even the score equally. Take you on Jerry Springer and beat your ass legally.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil' -
To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
William Congreve
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Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.
William Shakespeare -
Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.
William Hazlitt -
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
Avicenna -
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
Virgil Thomson