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Wit Quotes

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You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
Dorothy Parker

Authors on Wit Quotes: William Shakespeare Mason Cooley Ralph Waldo Emerson Francois de La Rochefoucauld Alexander Pope Benjamin Franklin John Dryden Christian Nestell Bovee George Herbert William Hazlitt Francis Bacon Drake Ray Bradbury Jean de la Bruyere Agnes Repplier Maria Edgeworth Oscar Wilde Friedrich Nietzsche Miguel de Cervantes William Shenstone Margaret Cavendish Plato Dorothy Parker Luc de Clapiers Baron de Montesquieu George Meredith Moliere William Wycherley John Selden C. S. Lewis George Eliot Mark Twain Catherine the Great
2.
Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
Mark Twain

3.
Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

4.
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

5.
There's many a man hath more hair than wit.
William Shakespeare

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

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

8.
Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.
Jack Vance

9.
A hard core life I toast to ex flaw, therefore I live raw and went to war wit the law.
Big L

10.
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

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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
Novalis

12.
Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
Winston Churchill

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Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
Miguel de Cervantes

14.
As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.
David Eddings

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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
Oscar Wilde

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Wit is well-bred insolence.
Aristotle

17.
As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.
Pythagoras

18.
The more wit we have, the less satisfied we are with it.
Jean le Rond d'Alembert

19.
He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

20.
I get it, I get it. I get it, I get it. Your hustle don't ever go unnoticed baby, I'm wit you, I'm wit it.
Drake

21.
I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
Joseph Addison

22.
Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
Victor Hugo

23.
Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
Miguel de Cervantes

24.
Niggas wit no money act like money isn't everything.
Drake

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Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
Wilkie Collins

26.
Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
George Meredith

27.
Irreverence is easy - whats hard is wit.
Tom Lehrer

28.
[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.
Tallulah Bankhead

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

30.
Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

31.
To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise.
Saadi

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

33.
Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.
Patrick O'Brian

34.
Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.
Gerry Mulligan

35.
Wit doesn't make girls pretty.
Jeanne Calment

36.
Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.
Leo Tolstoy

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Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
Jean de la Bruyere

38.
There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
Josh Billings

39.
Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?
Aphra Behn

40.
So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last.
Ethel Kennedy

41.
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
Helen Rowland

42.
The essay must be artistically rendered: You must keep the reader engaged, whether with wit, conflict, mischief, and/or yes, with honesty.
Phillip Lopate

43.
To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.
Aldous Huxley

44.
[On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death.
Barbara Stanwyck

45.
What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

46.
Your wits make others witty.
Catherine the Great

47.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

48.
wit is often its own worst enemy.
Maria Edgeworth

49.
He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.
Voltaire

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For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth.
Ludwig Buchner