Wit Quotes

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
Minna Antrim

Woman, Him, Save

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.
Mike Leigh

Work, Selfish, Acting

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.
John Stuart Blackie

God, Men, Speak

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
Alexander Chase

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
Philip Sidney

Perfection, Erected, Maketh

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.
Antoine Rivarol

Society, Talent, Lack

What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit.
Isabel Yosito

Powerful, Charm, Surely

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.
Chris Cooper

Humor, Big, Capable

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

Live, Long, After

Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.
Anne Perry

Time, Good, Thought

Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Roger Ascham

Good, Learning, Him

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
Pierre Bayle

Book, Thought, Less

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.
Anthony Hope

Weapon, Folly, Foe

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

Two, Fashion, Cannot

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
Mark Van Doren

Dark, Between, Wall

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.
Thomas Shadwell

Mind, Noblest, Frailty

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

Women, Bad, Sword

The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.
David Lehman

Best, Envy, Passion

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.
Thomas Willis

Age, Great, Men

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
Colley Cibber

Good, Manners, Beyond

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

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

Knowing, Difference, Alike

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.
Harry Hay

Politics, Giving, Support

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
Lord John Russell

Wisdom, Proverb

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