Wit Quotes
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Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
William Penn -
A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
William Congreve
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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.
William Hazlitt -
A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!
William Shakespeare -
Irreverence is easy - whats hard is wit.
Tom Lehrer -
Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.
William Kennedy -
I was in them million dollar meetings, he was cheatin. All up in the church, he was sneakin wit the deacon.
Nicki Minaj -
Anyway Ri Ri what rhymes wit your name really? Money got you vacationing in Chile
Nicki Minaj
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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 -
I'm the best now Anybody wit some money should invest now
Nicki Minaj -
Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.
William Shakespeare -
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 -
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.
Aristotle -
As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.
William Wycherley
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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?
William Shakespeare -
Those who object to wit are envious of it.
William Hazlitt -
Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
William Penn -
The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
Sophocles -
The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
William Shakespeare
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Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.
William Shenstone -
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
William Shakespeare -
There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
William Shakespeare