Quotes and Sayings About Wit
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
-- Agnes Repplier -
One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.
-- Alcaeus -
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 -
A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.
-- Alexander Brome -
The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
-- Alexander Pope -
Rob Chilson's mordant wit will keep you turning the pages until the wee hours!
-- Algis Budrys -
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 -
There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?
-- Aphra Behn -
[On a dull party:] It was a fĂȘte worse than death.
-- Barbara Stanwyck -
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
-- Ben Jonson -
I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.
-- Ben Okri -
He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.
-- Bias of Priene -
A hard core life I toast to ex flaw, therefore I live raw and went to war wit the law.
-- Big L -
I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
-- Bob Geldof -
And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.
-- Charles Lamb -
We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
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 -
Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee