Wit Quotes

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

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

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

Wit is well-bred insolence.

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

The more wit we have, the less satisfied we are with it.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

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.

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

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

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

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

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.

Irreverence is easy - whats hard is wit.

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

Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.

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

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

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.

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

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

Wit doesn't make girls pretty.

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

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.

Your wits make others witty.

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.

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

wit is often its own worst enemy.

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

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