Quotation Explorer - 'Wit'

Brevity is the soul of wit. - William Shakespeare
I did not want to appear before the world as pathetic, deprssed, and psychologically ill. So I erected a barrier of words and wit around myself, so that nobody could see how needy I really was. - Karen Armstrong
Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning,/as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it. - Jane Hirshfield
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. - John Russell
The real value of intellectuals is not just the value of their intellect but the impact. The distinctive footprints they are able to leave on minds with their wit whilst they live and how such footprints give latter days minds something to ponder over long after they are gone! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. - Oscar Wilde
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. - Book of Common Prayer
You cannot compile a wit out of two half-wits. - Joe Orton
There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words."[Interview, The Paris Review, Summer 1956] - Dorothy Parker
We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity--governing and inspiring themselves with all the lucidity wit which we rendered them. - Miguel Syjuco
True wit is nature to advantage dressed;What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. - Alexander Pope
Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit. - Raheel Farooq
Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle
Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it. - Walter Kirn
Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade. - Noel Coward
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side. - Jane Austen
What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people? - Jeph Jacques
He drew a circle that shut me out-Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout.But love and I had the wit to win:We drew a circle and took him In !From the poem " Outwitted - Edwin Markham
Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him. - Minna Thomas Antrim
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. - James Thurber
Everything can always be better! To know this is a wit! But if you also know that everything can always be worse and that is wisdom! Wisdom is to see both the lights and the shadows! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Wit had conquered science by laughing it out of court. - Philip Schuyler Allen
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. - W. Somerset Maugham
Attention to our duties provides far greater rewards than beauty and wit. Self-control is what differentiates us from the beasts. Without it, we are merely animals. - Laura Moncur
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. - James Thurber
The bubbly play of wit, the chesty laughs, the resonant voices of men when glass in hand they shut the grey world outside and prod their brains with the fun and folly of an accelerated pulse. - Jack London
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth. - Leo Tolstoy
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit. - Nathaniel Emmons
When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
My rapier wit hides my inner pain. - Cassandra Clare
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. - William Shakespeare
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is that it gives me the greater freedom of playing the fool. - Alexander Pope
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit. - Alexander Pope
I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain. - Cassandra Clare