Wit Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.