Quotes
Quotes about Wit
With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails. [Ger., Mit wenig Witz und viel Behagen Dreht jeder sich im engen Zirkeltanz Wie junge Katzen mit dem Schwanz.]
As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.
It is by such encounters that wits come to know each other. [Ger., Les beaux esprits lernen einander durch dergleichen recontre erkennen.]
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer: Hast thou the knack? pamper it not with liking; But if thou want it, buy it not too deare Many affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a deare fool for an houre.
At our wittes end.
Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.
Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords.
Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiestâthen we can all die laughing.
Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
Wit is educated insolence.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.
Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30, the wit; at 40, the judgment.
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.
Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
