Wit Quotes

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.

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.

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

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.

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.