Wit Quotes
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I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.
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Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.
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Wit is cultured insolence.
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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
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He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
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People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success -- that's not what government is about, and that's not what I want.
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
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I love Tom Cruise. When Penelope Cruz is through with him, I'm next.
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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You lil Fraggle Rock, beat you wit a padded lock
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A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.
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If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.
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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
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The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
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His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
