Quotes About Wit

Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.

Remember men, you are fighting for the ladies honor, which is probably more than she ever did.

For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.

An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

He is the only man I ever met with a seersucker face.

My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.

Why is it that a man with hair on his head has more hair than a man with hairs on his head?

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.

Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it widely.

I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.

He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.

No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?

Thy witty dexterousness espouses life's aesthetic aspect.

For when the wine is in, the wit is out.

A case which commonly happens with us in London, as well as our Neighbours in Paris, where if a Witty Man starts a happy thought, a Million of sordid Imitators ride it to death.

Here lies a King that rul'd, as he thought fitThe universal monarchy of wit;Here lies two flamens, and both those the best:Apollo's first, at last the true God's priest.