A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Joseph Roux
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
George Herbert
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
William Shakespeare
He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
James Boswell
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
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
W. Somerset Maugham
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.
Jean de la Bruyere
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
Maurice Chevalier