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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.
— Ashley Greene
The wit of men compared to that of women is like rouge compared to the rose.
— Germain-Francois Poullain De Saint-Foix
Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.
— Quentin Crisp
Simple words can be given powerful meanings. Wit and wisdom are simple words that speak to truth.
— Jim Boyd
To be knowledgeable, learn new things every day; to be wise, unlearn things that you learn with wit and love.
— Debasish Mridha
When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.
— Jack Smith
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
— Sophocles
There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.
— Richard Steele
Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit
— William Shakespeare
But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
— Alexander Pope
One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.
— Marcel Proust
I think I owe my life to cork soles.
— Anthony Trollope
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
— Charles Lamb
Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?
— George Eliot
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.
— William Shakespeare
It takes a thorough knowledge of the English language to effectively abuse it.
— Charlene Vermeulen
He is a heavy eater of beef. Me thinks it doth harm to his wit.
— William Shakespeare
A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.
— Thomas Hobbes
Life is meaning less when you realized that you are about to die. Till then, everything negative however trifle they may be, depress you.
— Ankur Basu Roy
Breakin down the weed about to make a plane, a hundred niggas wit me all reppin taylor gang.
— Wiz Khalifa
I value each woman for what she has to offer whether it be charm-beauty-wit-intelligence or humor but warmth is the quality I value most.
— Marlon Brando
Sometimes you've to be clever than a coyote to out wit the devil.
— Billy S. VanOrsdol
If you have to explain your sense of humor, then you are performing for the wrong crowd.
— Shannon L. Alder
'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
— Jonathan Swift
It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.
— William Davenant
What splendor nature proffered to the eye of any man who had half the wit to appreciate it!
— Piers Anthony
The important thing to remember is not to forget
— Benny Bellamacina
If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?
— Tracy Morgan
Every compartment in his brain which he had thought to find so full of wit was bolted fast; he grew positively stupid.
— Honore De Balzac
When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there.
— Amit Kalantri
What a measly epitaph that would make: 'They saw it coming, but hadn't the wit to stop it happening.'
— Sara Parkin
Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
— Samuel Butler
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
— Oscar Wilde
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
— Andre Maurois
You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.
— Amit Kalantri
Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it.
— John Webster
A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
— William Congreve
To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners
— Jonathan Chamberlain Williams
I wouldn't want to put out anyone's eye with my wit.
— Dannika Dark
The key to spontaneous wit is an unburdened mind.
— Darwin Ortiz
It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.
— Luc De Clapiers
Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.
— Margaret Cavendish
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Resounding ... with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable.
— Kathi Appelt
The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.
— Russell Baker
They drew a line that shut me out, Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout!
But love and I had the wit to win
We drew a circle and brought them in. — Edwin Markham
If you cant beat 'em cooperate 'em to death!
— Charles M. Schulz
He lies down next to me.He says, 'You know - you have a face to die for/'
'Well, don't die,' I say, we just met. — Gwendoline Riley
Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
— Philip Sidney
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.
— Graydon Carter
Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.
— Harry Hay
If you don't have the grace and wit to die early, you are forced to vanish, to hide as if in shame and apology.
— Don DeLillo
A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!
— William Shakespeare
BOTTOM Not so, neither: but if I had wit enough to get out of this wood, I have enough to serve mine own turn.
— William Shakespeare
That's a very murky position," objected Felix."So's the weather. But this is England, we must learn to live with uncertainty. — Gail Carriger
To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
— William Congreve
I'd like to introduce a man with a lot of charm, talent, and wit. Unfortunately, he couldn't be here tonight, so instead ...
— Melvin Helitzer
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
— Joseph Addison
I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.
— John D. MacDonald
Your wit never ceases to underwhelm me.
— A&E Kirk
When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.
— Francis Bacon
Swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb.
— Mary Collyer
She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.
— David Mitchell
Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners.
— Lord Chesterfield
I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.
— Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
— Alexander Pope
Things are bound to begin happening if you've got your wits about you. You create the lucky accidents.
— Lewis Thomas
There is not a man of common sense who would not chuse to be agreeable in company; and yet, strange as it may seem, very few are
— The Town And Country Magazine. Vol. 11, 1779
It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity.
— Luc De Clapiers
The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown.
— Goldwin Smith
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.
— Charles Caleb Colton
A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.
— Mark Lawrence
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
— Virgil Thomson
To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence.
— Haruki Murakami
Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
— Minna Antrim
I hope to return. I'll do so if I'm not killed. Probably will anyway.
— Brandon Sanderson