Wit Quotes
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
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if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.
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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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Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.
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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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Irreverence is easy - whats hard is wit.
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In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
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The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible.
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Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.
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Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
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Those who object to wit are envious of it.
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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!
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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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The wit of men compared to that of women is like rouge compared to the rose.
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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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Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and 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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It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
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Anyway Ri Ri what rhymes wit your name really? Money got you vacationing in Chile
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The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
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Wit has as few true judges as painting.
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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.
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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 gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
