Wit Quotes

Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.

Wit is educated insolence.

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

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.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

Silence is the wit of fools.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready.