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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The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible.
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Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
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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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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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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.
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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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Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
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Irreverence is easy - whats hard is wit.
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Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.
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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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Those who object to wit are envious of it.
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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 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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Anyway Ri Ri what rhymes wit your name really? Money got you vacationing in Chile
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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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The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
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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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Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
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Wit has as few true judges as painting.
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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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Too much wit makes the world rotten.
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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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They have a plentiful lack of wit.
