Wit Quotes
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Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.
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Irreverence is easy - whats hard is 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 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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The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible.
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What are wits for unless a man uses them?
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As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.
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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 gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
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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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Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.
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He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.
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They have a plentiful lack of wit.
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I was in them million dollar meetings, he was cheatin. All up in the church, he was sneakin wit the deacon.
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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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Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
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Too much wit makes the world rotten.
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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.
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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.
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Wit has as few true judges as painting.
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Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.
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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.
