Wit Quotes
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His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.
William Cowper
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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.
Nicki Minaj
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A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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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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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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Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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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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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.
William Shakespeare
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Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!
William Shakespeare
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In the Ferrari or Jaguar, switchin' four lanes
Wit' the top down screaming out money ain't a thang
Jermaine Dupri Mauldin
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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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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche