Wit Quotes

O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

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

Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to ambition and wit.

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Wit doesn't make girls pretty.

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.

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.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

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.

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.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

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.