Wit Quotes

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

There's many a man has more hair than wit.

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.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled.

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

The more wit the less courage.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.

What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit.

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.