Wit Quotes

You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready.

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

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

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled.

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.

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

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

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

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

The well of true wit is truth itself.

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

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

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

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

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

Don't set your wit against a child.