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What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit.
— Isabel Yosito
Simple words can be given powerful meanings. Wit and wisdom are simple words that speak to truth.
— Jim Boyd
The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.
— Samuel Johnson
Hello, I am Oscar Wilde
— Oscar Wilde
How I define patriotism, a knife, a riffle and some hand-gernades.
— Billy S. VanOrsdol
The more wit the less courage.
— Thomas Fuller
I am not gamesome: I do lack some part
of that quick spirit that is in Antony. — William Shakespeare
of that quick spirit that is in Antony. — William Shakespeare
Deliver me from my disciples!
— Oscar Wilde
I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.
— Elliott Erwitt
What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!
— William Shakespeare
When the age is in, the wit is out
— William Shakespeare
One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Don't let the muggles get you down.
— J.K. Rowling
Chocolate may be cheaper than a psychiatrist, but the latter doesn't generally adhere to your ass for the rest of your natural life.
— Lois Greiman
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
— Flannery O'Connor
Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.
— Charles Churchill
Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon
— Tony Blair
[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.
— Elizabeth I
A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.
— William Congreve
No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
— Wilkie Collins
Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.
— William Hazlitt
To Dewey, if brevity was the soul of wit, stagecraft was the very center of politics.
— David Pietrusza
A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
— Alexander Pope
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
— Mark Van Doren
Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
— Holly Black
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
— Nathanael Emmons
May you always have ale enough to wet your tongues, wit enough to know friend from foe, and strength enough for every fight.
— Stephen R. Lawhead
Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,
and has wit in it, and instruction too,
if we can but find it out. — Laurence Sterne
and has wit in it, and instruction too,
if we can but find it out. — Laurence Sterne
I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.
— Nicole Luiken
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
— Jane Austen
Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.
— Jean De La Bruyere
He thought he was a wit, and he was half right.
— Henri Arnold Seyrig
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
— Alexander Pope
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
— Stephen Leacock
My wit is only as stupid as the audience.
— Aleksandra Ninkovic
He is not an ideal husband. I am his wife.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
— Oscar Wilde
She is a woman of an excellent assurance, and an extraordinary happy wit, and tongue. Ben Jonson, Epicoene, or The Silent Woman
— Robert Galbraith
If folly disappeared, wit would starve.
— Mason Cooley
This lot won't suffer you forever.I wouldn't see you dead by their knives; I see a fine man within you Wit."
"Yes, He tasted quite delicious. — Brandon Sanderson
"Yes, He tasted quite delicious. — Brandon Sanderson
His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.
— William Shakespeare
Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.
— Margot Asquith
When the wine is in, the wit is out.
— Thomas Becon
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
Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
— John Selden
Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.
— John Selden
The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they?
— Kingsley Amis
He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.
— George D. Prentice
Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship.
— Ninon De L'Enclos
It is a mere needless thing to fight with ignorance with all your true strength except you can educate and change ignorance with wit and wisdom
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The younger brother hath the more wit.
— John Ray
Really?"
"No. I'm being ironic. Or is it sarcastic? I can never remember."
"Irony's cleverer, so you're probably being sarcastic. — Jonathan Stroud
"No. I'm being ironic. Or is it sarcastic? I can never remember."
"Irony's cleverer, so you're probably being sarcastic. — Jonathan Stroud
You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
— Dorothy Parker
Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.
— Samuel Beckett
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
— Charles De Secondat
If life is a game... I need new dice!
— Jay Little
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Jack shall have Jill.
Nought shall go ill. — William Shakespeare
Nought shall go ill. — William Shakespeare
My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs do from the cobblestones.
— Edmond Rostand
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
— Ben Jonson
Wit beyond measure is mans greatest treasure
— Rowena Ravenclaw J.K.Rowling
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
— Jacques Barzun
If you cant beat 'em cooperate 'em to death!
— Charles M. Schulz
Humor is the pensiveness of wit.
— Robert Aris Willmott
Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.
— Stan Laurel
What a measly epitaph that would make: 'They saw it coming, but hadn't the wit to stop it happening.'
— Sara Parkin
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I assure you, you will never survive on your wits alone.
— LeBron James
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
— Voltaire
Wit and judgment often are at strife.
— Alexander Pope
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld