Wit Quotes
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Don't set your wit against a child.
Jonathan Swift -
How every fool can play upon the word!
William Shakespeare
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The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.
George Eliot -
True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none.
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham -
And writers say, as the most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, Even so by love the young and tender wit Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud, Losing his verdure even in the prime, And all the fair effects of future hopes.
William Shakespeare -
The actor has the advantage - or the liability - of knowing, "It's going to be my face up there on the frickin' screen, so I better keep my wits about me. Nobody's going to care that I was bad because I was not happy. They're only going to know I'm bad."
William H. Macy -
But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.
William H. Seward -
I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night / With some friend that has the wit.
William Butler Yeats
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It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.
William Davenant -
Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
William Congreve -
I have, over the years brought an enormous number of plays to television starting obviously with Nicholas Nickelby and then things like Angels In America or in Wit with Emma Thompson and Mike Nichols. So, yes, I do find that very interesting and I'm sure that down the road there will be plays that I'll want to do that way.
Colin Callender -
Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.
Gerry Mulligan -
Humor is wit and love.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
Reality TV is a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of millions of their fellow half-wits for weeks on end.
Terry Teachout
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Though I am young, I scorn to flit On the wings of borrowed wit.
George Wither -
You may be witty, but not satirical.
Horace Greeley -
If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.
William Shakespeare -
How now, wit! Whither wander you?
William Shakespeare -
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
Stephen Leacock -
Your wit makes others witty.
Catherine the Great
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Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?
Thomas Hood -
There's many a man hath more hair than wit.
William Shakespeare -
Without the assistance of eating and drinking, the most sparkling wit would be as heavy as a bad soufflé, and the brightest talent as dull as a looking-glass on a foggy day.
Alexis Soyer -
Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.
Thomas Malory