Wit Quotes

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

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.

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.

The well of true wit is truth itself.