Wit Quotes

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, 'Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.'

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

There's many a man has more hair than wit.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled.

The more wit the less courage.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit.

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.