Wit Quotes
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The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
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The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Oh that's what he left? Let his mama pick it up. Might back up on it, VROOM VROOM wit the pick-up truck.
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Shoulda sent a thank you note, you little hoe Now Imma wrap your coffin wit a bow
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Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.
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A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.
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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.
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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.
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Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.
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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.
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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.
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[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
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Gotta go let me get the car key You don't want it wit the Harajuku Barbie
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Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
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In the Ferrari or Jaguar, switchin' four lanes Wit' the top down screaming out money ain't a thang
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This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares.
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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.
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thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.
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As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers
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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.
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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.
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A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!
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This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were it, If nothing better came after.
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My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!
