Wit Quotes
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The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
Lord Byron
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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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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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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.
C. S. Lewis
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Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
William Shakespeare
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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare
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What are wits for unless a man uses them?
Ellis Peters
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Politics make me sick
William Howard Taft
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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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The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen
As is the razor's edge invisible.
William Shakespeare
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Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.
Alec-Tweedie
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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 would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!
William Shakespeare
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My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
William Shakespeare
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Only the wit and the hard work and will of individual men, black men and white men, can from wreck and sediment create a fairer world.
E. Merrill Root
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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
