Wit Quotes
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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.
William Shakespeare
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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.
Nicki Minaj
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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.
Henry Ward Beecher
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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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Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
William Shakespeare
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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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They have a plentiful lack of wit.
William Shakespeare
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Too much wit makes the world rotten.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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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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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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Wit has as few true judges as painting.
William Wycherley
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Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
William Cowper
