Wit Quotes
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Politics make me sick
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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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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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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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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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Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
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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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Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.
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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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Brevity is the soul of wit.
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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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He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.
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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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Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
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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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He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
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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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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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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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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.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
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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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Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.
