Wit Quotes
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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings
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I'm the best now Anybody wit some money should invest now
Nicki Minaj
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[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
William Shakespeare
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Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them.
Vladimir Nabokov
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To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans,
Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth
With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights;
If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain;
If lost, why then a grievous labour won;
However, but a folly bought with wit,
Or else a wit by folly vanquished.
William Shakespeare
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I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!
William Shakespeare
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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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As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers
William Baldwin
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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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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare
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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
