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.
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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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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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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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Home-keeping youth have ever homely 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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Irreverence is easy - whats hard is wit.
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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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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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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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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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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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It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
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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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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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Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
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The wit of men compared to that of women is like rouge compared to the rose.
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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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Too much wit makes the world rotten.
