Wit Quotes
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To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
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It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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Your wit makes others witty.
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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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It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.
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The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
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Don't set your wit against a child.
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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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You may be witty, but not satirical.
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After wisdom comes wit.
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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 a family is usually best received among strangers.
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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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Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.
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True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none.
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The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
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Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
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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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There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
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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 and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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There's many a man hath more hair than wit.
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Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.
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Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon
