Wit Quotations | Page 2

Wit thou well that I will notlive long after thy days.

Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes around a corner

Wit is more often a shield than a lance.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humour is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Those wanting wit affect gravity and go by the name of solid men

This year, I think, shows one thing that I think people have really, really begun to recognize, and that's that Ryan has a personality. Not only is he maturing as a race car driver, but he's maturing as a person. He has got one of the brightest minds in this garage and his wit is so dry and so quick it goes right by many people.

Bob's broad range of interests, his quick wit and his deft interview skills will engage viewers in the best King tradition, ... We are delighted that he will be filling in for Larry from time to time.

Being a mother is so much more than giving birth. It takes all your time, energy, wit and strength, not to mention the wisdom and grace of God to see that that child succeeds, ... The celebrity mom is the exception to the rule as her level of strength, compassion and understanding is parallel to none. This is why we honor these mothers because they have triumphed in the spotlight and at home.

At present, Spacey seems far stronger at conveying Richard's haughty grandeur and petulant temper-tantrums than he is at getting to the heart of the poetry, or the man. There is no mistaking his charisma, or his ability to turn the mood on a sixpence so that courtly formality suddenly gives way to either sardonic wit or a terrifying menace. But his English accent sometimes seemed strained and he has a tendency to bellow the often exquisitely lachrymose verse.

England gave me a chance. It's a very individual country where people have a personal style; they don't all follow a trend. The subtlety and wit of England is incredible, and they are very creative.

Proud of his learning (just enough to quote), He revell'd in his Ciceronian glory: With memory excellent to get by rote, With wit to hatch a pun or tell a story, Graced with some merit, and with more effrontery, 'His country's pride,' he came down to

Often the truth spoken with a smile will penetrate the mind and reach the heart; the lesson strikes home without wounding because of the wit in the saying

Anthony is a very funny comedian whose engaging wit and personality have made him a favorite with audiences. We're delighted to have him host the show when it returns to NBC this summer.

An ounce of wit is worth a pound of argument

Ashley is a truly amazing young person who possesses profound intelligence, sharp wit and a great sense of community obligation.

You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.

This delivering of knowledge in distinct and disjointed aphorisms doth leave the wit of man more free to turn and toss, and to make use of that which is so delivered to more several purposes and applications

Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. ''And what are you reading, Miss -- -?'' ''Oh! it is only a novel!'' replies the young lady; while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. ''It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda ''; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

Almost everybody in the neighborhood had ''troubles,'' frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had ''complications.'' To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit

They don't know a wit about marketing, ... That is the biggest challenge for most inventors.

This morning I read German and visited wit a brother and sister from Michigan, who thought that "a prophet is always a prophet;" but I told them that a prophet was a prophet only when he was acting as such.---

There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted

This law is not doing anything, not one wit to make this community safer.

Accept a miracle instead of wit and see two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.

I want readers to come away from the new book with an appreciation both for how complex jazz is, and yet how clear its structures are, ... And I want them to come away knocked out by the brilliance and soul and wit and profundity of the performances on the CD, able to appreciate more of what went into them, and hungry to hear more, to explore this fantastic music.

They are vulgar and dirty-minded and alien to grace, and I would not, if I could, which I hasten to say I cannot, cross their obscenities with a wit which is foreign to them and gild their futilities with the glamour which by birth and breeding and performance they do not possess.

sharp, dry wit and his brash dealings with contestants.

I hope the press will keep their respectful distance and give Olivia and Dhani the space they need now. George has given so much to us in his lifetime and continues to do so even after his passing, with his music, his wit and his wisdom.

In doing of either, let wit bear a stroke,/ For buying or selling of pig in a poke.

By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, and to stir passions rather than to charm taste.

After wisdom comes wit.

An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.

Where there is a will there's a law suit.

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.

I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to.

Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.

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

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

Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response.

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.

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.

I love Tom Cruise. When Penelope Cruz is through with him, I'm next.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.

What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.

The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.

Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.

If you can't convince them [with your logic] then just confound them [with your wit.]

The Germans wit is in his fingers.

Wit doesn't make girls pretty.

Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

I never have wit until I am below stairs. [Fr., Je n'ai jamais d'esprit qu'au bas de l'escalier.]

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

My rapier wit hides my inner pain.

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.

The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.

Anyway Ri Ri what rhymes wit your name really? Money got you vacationing in Chile

I'm the best now Anybody wit some money should invest now

Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.

Styles in wit change so.

to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.

There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.

If folly disappeared, wit would starve.

Wit: a whim followed by a wham.

True wit has a grave intention.

Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life.

Digression is the soul of wit.

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

So is there any part of you that’s not a lethal weapon? (Kiara) No. Even my wits are sharpened. (Nykyrian)

It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it.

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

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.

I assure you, you will never survive on your wits alone.

Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

The younger brother hath the more wit.

Many live by their wits but few by their wit.

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.

The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.

You could tell immediately there was a great history to this guy, as revealed in the pilot. He has a sense of confidence about how things will turn out. He has great charm and great wit and is incredibly intelligent and meticulous. Nothing escapes him.

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

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.

Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.

Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.