Quotes About Wit

I like my man to be witty; he needs a sense of humour and needs to be extremely well-mannered.

The last man that makes a joke owns it.

There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit.

Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

I love every-day senses, every-day wit and entertainment; a man who is only good on holidays, is good for very little.

Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing.

Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh

I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist.

I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke.

The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.

Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.

Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.

A real man's weapon is his mind.

MEN, Charlene said. Leave that to you! Willa quipped.

Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.

It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.

Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Some people don't get it when I'm being sarcastic.

My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.