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.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.
Alec-Tweedie
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My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!
William Shakespeare
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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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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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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.
Tom Stoppard
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt
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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.
William Hazlitt
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The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
Lord Byron
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Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
Sophocles
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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
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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.
William Kennedy
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
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Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
William Penn
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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.
Bill Vaughan
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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.
William Shakespeare
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Politics make me sick
William Howard Taft
