Wit Quotes
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Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.
William Shenstone
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Beauty, wit,
High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,
Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all
To envious and calumniating time.
William Shakespeare
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Irreverence is easy - whats hard is wit.
Tom Lehrer
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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.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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Too much wit makes the world rotten.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
William Shakespeare
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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.
Russell Baker
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I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.
William Shakespeare
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Wit has as few true judges as painting.
William Wycherley
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They have a plentiful lack of wit.
William Shakespeare
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Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
William Congreve
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Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is mad and sent into England." "Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?" "Why, because he was mad. He shall recover his wits there, or, if he do not, it's no great matter there." "Why?" "'Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he.
William Shakespeare
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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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The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
William Shakespeare
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Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
William Cowper
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There's a very fine line between underacting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of actors are guilty of. It amazes me how some of these little numbers with dreamy looks and a dead pan are getting away wit it. I'd hate to see them on stage with a dog act.
Joan Blondell
