Wit Quotes - page 6

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him. (Minna Antrim)
She confused wit with intelligence, and made people laugh rather than lightening their hearts or making them think. View quote
E. Lockhart
Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program. View quote
Adam Gopnik
Have you seen them?" he asked. Arrow looked at him disinterestedly. Will frowned. Not talking, eh?" he said. "Maybe you're a little hoarse." He cackled breifly at his own wit. View quote
John Flanagan
You know, Gilan, sarcasm isn't the lowest form of wit. It's not even wit at all. View quote
John Flanagan
I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun. View quote
Elliott Erwitt
I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres. View quote
Carrie Brownstein
The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy. View quote
David Lehman
President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift. View quote
Elton Gallegly
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure. View quote
Emanuel Celler
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory. (Emily Post)
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. View quote
Frank Muir
My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors. View quote
Mike Leigh
Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit. View quote
Thomas Willis
Mr. Astaire is the nearest approach we are ever likely to have to a human Mickey Mouse; he might have been drawn by Mr. Walt Disney, with his quick physical wit, his incredible agility. He belongs to a fantasy world almost as free as Mickey's from the law of Gravity. View quote
Fred Astaire
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace, and wit, reminders of order, calm, and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep, and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still, and absorbed. View quote
Germaine Greer
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations. View quote
Maurice Chevalier
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. The engine of consolidation will be the Federal judiciary; the two other branches the corrupting and corrupted instruments. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Love must kiss that mortal's eyesWho hopes to see fair Arcady.No gold can buy you entrance there;But beggared Love may go all bare-No wisdom won with weariness;But Love goes in with Folly's dress-No fame that wit could ever win;But only Love may lead Love in. View quote
Henry Cuyler Bunner
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. (James Thurber)
What's a simurgh?” "A member of the winged species avian simurghi,” sniffed the simurgh. "Easy to identify because of his gorgeous plumage, ready wit, intelligent conversation, amiable disposition, and fabulous abilities. View quote
Lin Carter
A little wit and plenty of authority, that is what has almost always governed the world. View quote
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac
Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit sometimes so long that there is no wit for so much room. View quote
Thomas Fuller
I cannot see the wit of walking and talking at the same time. When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country. View quote
William Hazlitt