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.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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You may be witty, but not satirical.
Horace Greeley
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The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.
George Eliot
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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.
William Congreve
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Don't set your wit against a child.
Jonathan Swift
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A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.
William Shenstone
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The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
Euripides
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Though I am young, I scorn to flit On the wings of borrowed wit.
George Wither
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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.
William Goldman
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The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
Avicenna
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There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
Stephen Leacock
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Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.
William Hazlitt
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It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.
William Davenant
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Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.
William Hazlitt
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Your wit makes others witty.
Catherine the Great
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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.
Terry Teachout
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon
Tony Blair
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True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none.
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
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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."
William H. Macy
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There's many a man hath more hair than wit.
William Shakespeare
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After wisdom comes wit.
Evan Esar
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Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
Nathanael Emmons
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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.
Alexis Soyer