Wit Quotations

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.

Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit.

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.

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

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.

There is certainly a higher percentage of wit in British comedy than in American comedy. What always tickles me is the way in which people try to use their intellect to get themselves out of tricky situations but never quite manage to do so - much to their enormous embarrassment.

Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

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

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O'Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don't have that kind of wit and genius. We don't do that. We sit down and have some accidents.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

When doing family entertainment, you don't actually worry about kids. You know what you can't do. But in terms of sensibility and sophistication and wit and ambition, aim for your own taste level, and kids will - if they're interested in the subject matter - be glad that you did.

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.

I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.

Irreverence is easy - whats hard is wit.

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

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I say it - God.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

I've never, ever in my life touched a photographer. Some of the cruellest things I've ever said have been to photographers who are chasing me down the street, some of the sharpest, most efficient emotional barbs. And they know that in that moment, in that one-to-one wit competition, they just got smashed.

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

Lots of people would say House doesn't have any charm at all. I would disagree, though: I find him immensely charming and endlessly entertaining. He has a sort of grace and a wit about him, and ultimately, I think he is on the side of the angels.

There's many a man has more hair than wit.

There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I'll just enjoy the wit of a Picabia or a Duchamp. It amuses me that they thought that what they did would be a good way of making art.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

What's more, he's had to reckon with some ultimate questions, which he's done with courage and wit and irony.

We're getting back to the simplicity of why people love the brand. They can really hear the wit and self-deprecation of the brand. It's a step in the right direction.

Your wits make others witty.

Your wit makes others witty.

There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.

Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

Wit is a thing capable of proof.

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

I think I owe my life to cork soles.

[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

One can have a wit, but not a witless

I have taken to living by my wits.

[On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.

Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him ... when the hill stood still, he was never a wit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

Men are getting soft and gentle and standing back, and women are getting sharper and having careers and taking a bigger place and coming out more. So there's a new kind of marriage to be seen in which the woman is dominant and makes the decisions. Her quick masculine wit and humor and idea and plan is out there before the man can even speak.

Moving from one activity to another makes sense if you do it with a hint of wit or touch of grace. But I think moving from one activity to another can give momentum. If you do it well you can increase the energy you bring to the next piece of work.

My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm sure his Irish wit in some way influenced my decision to become an actress.

On the other side of this debate they are very good at getting votes. And they are very good at being politicians, but I don't think they are worth a wit in the gynecological operating room! I don't want them in that operating room, telling a doctor what procedure to use for my daughter, or my niece.

But because of his intelligence, his wit and his insightfulness and his kind of all-consuming warmth, that would go away.

I have never been one for musicians. I know girls are supposed to go crazy for frontmen who close their eyes when they sing and nod their heads when the drums kick in, but I'm like Shania Twain with that stuff: That don't impress me much. I'll take wit and brains over the ability to carry a tune any day.

He's got such a wit and sense of humor like no other. He says things that will cut you without being rude or obnoxious.

. . . there is a much higher character from that of a wit or a poet or a savant, which is that of a rational sociable being, willing to carry on the commerce of life with all the sweetness and condescension, decency and virtue will permit.

He kept his wit and humor right to the bitter end.

He knows his subject inside out and has a sense of timing and a wit that few people can match.

Jon is a gifted athlete who likes to take the big shots. He is popular among his teammates, has a sharp wit and a great sense of humor. His versatility is a great strength and causes match-up problems for other teams.

It is a great misfortune to have the wit to speak, but not the sense when to remain silent.

Jane Grigson is the nearest thing that we have on this side of the great green bouillabaisse to M F K Fisher. with learning and wit that are rarely devoted to such a banausic subject as stuffing food down one's cake hole.

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.

Surely anybody with a half a wit can figure out some other way to get what they?re after.

Steve Martin writes this play about something very serious. But, as Steve Martin, he puts his own little twist on words. The wit is quick and very funny in addition to presenting an interesting message.

Nancy was a writer with a lot of soul. That's something that most critics either don't have the opportunity to share with you or just can't. She had the kind of humanity that is embracing. It was always a surprise to see the tremendous artistry of her writing, the wit and flair. I really liked her. She'll be missed, that's for sure.

It does mix it up, because sometimes she'll take on the role of putting frogs in Charlie's shoes and sometimes I will, ... combination of wicked wit and absolutely saintly spirit.

There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.

Will was a very easy-going guy who took time to mentor new faculty members, including me. I'll remember him for his wry wit and sense of humor.

We are thrilled to have Pamela Anderson host The 2006 JUNO Awards. With her unabashed wit and spontaneity, she is sure to make April 2nd a night to remember.

We are pleased that the Bush campaign has agreed to meet wit the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates. We look forward to that meeting.

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

Malice blunts the point of wit.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.

A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.

Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.

Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.

I enjoy my pettiness with a dose of wit.

As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.

Evidently, quality of wits is more important than quantity.

No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' .

Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike

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Women everywhere fell head over heels for his charm, wit and warmth and now we're giving you the chance to marry him!

We've been lucky to find the perfect person for the job. Tazewell has wit and humor, and a real sense of the need for education, outreach and being a part of the community.

Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment