Wit Quotes

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

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.
Harry Hay

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

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

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.
Anthony Hope

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
Paul McCartney

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.
James Humes

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

I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled.
Janice Dickinson

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
Virgil Thomson

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

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

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

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

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

One withers, another grows.

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man out of his wits just for the fun of it.

The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I.

I'm known for yokin jacks and beatin em wit smokin gats, Leavin token blacks with broken backs and open caps.

Education with socialists, it's like sex, all right as long as you don't have to pay for it.







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