Wit Quotes
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You beef wit me, I'm-a even the score equally. Take you on Jerry Springer and beat your ass legally.
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Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.
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Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining them not all that difficult.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none.
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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.
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Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.
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Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.
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Humor is wit and love.
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You may be witty, but not satirical.
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Though I am young, I scorn to flit On the wings of borrowed wit.
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The wit of men compared to that of women is like rouge compared to the rose.
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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."
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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.
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If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.
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Don't set your wit against a child.
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I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.
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It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.
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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.
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Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
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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.
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There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
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Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.
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Your wit makes others witty.
