Quotes About Wit

Well? Well, what? Damn it, Nathan, tell me what you think. About what? Lady Sara, Colin persisted. What do you think of her? The truth, Colin? His friend gave a quick nod. Nathan's smile was slow, easy. She'll fit through the window.

We English have perfect eyesight. Alec finally turned to look at her. Are you jesting with me, wife? You decide, husband. Aye, you are, Alec answered. I've already learned all about the English sense of humor. And what have you learned? You don't have any.

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.

He can cook? In a manner of speaking, Mrs. Treadwell said, cheerfully. What manner of speaking is that?

If sarcasm were gold, she would have just made her fortune.

This is the woman I'm t' marry! Where have ye been all me life, me love? And without a blink, I replied, Don't start with me, ye scoundrel! If ye come with an empty purse, ye can leave now, fer I'd rather be unwed than unfed.

Under that sexy cap, he had the brains of bivalve and I was glad not to be the one sleeping with him.

He grinned. "It's cheaper than that

Everyone knows you're beautiful," he'd told her, "but no one knows that you're clever." Clever. Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.

Let's just say, brat, that if the wits beneath your golden hair were any dimmer you would be not a female, but a dandelion

Being flippant was harder work than being earnest

Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said "I do, and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.

Men are like parking spots: sometimes I drive my car into them

I'd like to introduce a man with a lot of charm, talent, and wit. Unfortunately, he couldn't be here tonight, so instead . . .

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

There was a young man of Quebec Who was frozen in snow to his neck, When asked, 'Are you Friz?' He replied, 'Yes I is, But we don't call this cold in Quebec.'