Quotes About Wit

At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around.

Never try to outsmart a woman, unless you are another woman.

Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a heaven while they wait.

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

I don't date women my age. There aren't any.

Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty.

It's me," said Jace. "Watching me play Scrabble is enough to make most women swoon. Imagine if I actually put in some effort.

I have nothing against women. Some of my best wives were women.

I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all.

The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.

Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners.

Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.

Harry, " Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.

Some comedy has turned into, 'Donald Trump's bad, isn't he?' That's a true statement. But where is your joke?

The more wit the less courage.

Grosse plodders they were all, that had some learning and reading, but no wit to make use of it.

Why shoulde I goe gadding and fisgigging after firking flantado Amphibologies, wit is wit, and good will is good will.

He would praise her beyond the moon and stars, and that so sweetly and ravishingly, as I persuade myself he was more in love with his own curious forming fancy than her face; and truth is, many become passionate lovers only to win praise to their wits.

Danger will put wit into anie man. Architas made a wooden doue to flie: by which proportion I see no reason that the veryest blocke in the world should despayre of anie thing.

Actually an impromptu mini-master plan, not to be confused with the fleeting notion, half-baked idea, or emergency room spin-story for a masturbation mishap.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

If somebody has no sense of humor, I think that's a great place to start for British comedy in terms of your character.