Wits Quotes
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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
Victor Hugo
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Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.
Douglas Jerrold
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When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.
Francis Bacon
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Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
Wilkie Collins
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I will not wage war against women and children! I have instructed my air force to limit their attacks to military objectives. However, if the enemy should conclude from this that he might get away with waging war in a different manner he will receive an answer that he'll be knocked out of his wits!
Adolf Hitler
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Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
Homer
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So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last.
Ethel Kennedy
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I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me, tugging at me, as if they wanted a piece of me. It was always, 'do this, do that,' and not just on the job but off, too. God, I've tried to stay intact, whole.
Marilyn Monroe
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All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
Jonathan Swift
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"Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did," the officer observed.
Carolyn Keene
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Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed.
Evan Esar
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Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!
George Bernard Shaw
