Quotes and Sayings About Wit

Wit is a thing capable of proof.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Proof #Wit #Capable

Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Quality #Infinite #Wit

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.
-- Alcaeus

#Wine #Chains #Wit

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

#Judgment #Wit #Admission

A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.
-- Alexander Brome

#Life And Death #Poet #Wit

I have more zeal than wit.
-- Alexander Pope

#Wit #Zeal

The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
-- Alexander Pope

#Warfare #Earth #Wit

Wit and judgment often are at strife.
-- Alexander Pope

#Judgment #Strife #Wit

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
-- Alexander Pope

#Sarcastic #Dunces #Wit

Rob Chilson's mordant wit will keep you turning the pages until the wee hours!
-- Algis Budrys

#Pages #Hours #Wit

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.
-- Anna Katharine Green

#Men #Intelligence #Wit

There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Wit #Readiness

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

#Wit #Submit

Wit is cultured insolence.
-- Aristotle

#Humor #Insolence #Wit

Wit is well-bred insolence.
-- Aristotle

#Insolence #Wit #Wells

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

#Party #Dull #Wit

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Talking #Favors #Wit

Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
-- Ben Jonson

#Clothes #Wit #Countenance

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.
-- Ben Okri

#Miserable #Homeless #Wit

He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.
-- Bias of Priene

#Expectations #Stores #Wit

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

#War #Law #Wit

I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
-- Bob Geldof

#Personality #Difficult #Wit

And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Men #Wit

My rapier wit hides my inner pain.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Pain #Humor #Wit

Your wits make others witty.
-- Catherine the Great

#Witty #Tongue #Wit

Your wit makes others witty.
-- Catherine the Great

#Witty #Wit

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.
-- Charles Lamb

#Character #Nerves #Wit

We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Office #Tendencies #Wit

Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Retreat #Advantage #Wit

Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Dishes #Wit