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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Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.
Oscar Wilde
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Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.
William Shakespeare
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Those who object to wit are envious of it.
William Hazlitt
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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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Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
Douglas Jerrold
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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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Anyway Ri Ri what rhymes wit your name really? Money got you vacationing in Chile
Nicki Minaj
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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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As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.
William Wycherley
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Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
William Penn
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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
