Wit Quotes
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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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True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none.
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Don't set your wit against a child.
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The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.
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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.
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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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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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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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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?
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Humor is wit and love.
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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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You may be witty, but not satirical.
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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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The wit of men compared to that of women is like rouge compared to the rose.
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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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Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
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Though I am young, I scorn to flit On the wings of borrowed wit.
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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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If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.
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Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.
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There's many a man hath more hair than wit.
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There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
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Your wit makes others witty.
