Wit Quotes
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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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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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Brevity is the soul of wit.
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Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.
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The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
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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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Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art." Feste: "But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.
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Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.
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Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.
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To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.
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Politics make me sick
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He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
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Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
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The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.
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Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
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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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The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.
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He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.
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We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.
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The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.
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Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
