Wit Quotes - page 2

Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ, The substitute for genius, sense, and wit. (William Cowper)
His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home. View quote
William Cowper
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. View quote
Francis Bacon
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power. View quote
Francis Bacon
'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit. View quote
Jonathan Swift
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers. View quote
Lucretius
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ. View quote
Edward Young
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners. View quote
Florence King
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude. View quote
John Stuart Blackie
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. (William Shakespeare)
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. View quote
Mark Twain
Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. View quote
Avicenna
Democracy is the worst system devised by the wit of man, except for all the others. View quote
Winston Churchill
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. View quote
Aristotle
His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. View quote
Edward Abbey
Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas. View quote
Patrick O'Brian
Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth. View quote
Stan Laurel
Vulgarity is no substitute for wit. (Julian Fellowes)
I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. View quote
Louis L'Amour
Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately. View quote
Gerry Mulligan
Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it. View quote
Germaine Greer
The more wit the less courage. View quote
Thomas Fuller