Quotes About Wit

Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies.

Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.

Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.

People need to make sure they have a good humor spark plug inside them that can be ignited at any moment when required.

The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application.

He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery.

Where did you get your haircut, the pet shop?

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

The only weapon we have is comedy.

A full glass of patience with a pinch of sarcasm is all you need to deal~

When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth.

Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.

Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.

I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there is a rhythm to it.

I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.

Wit puts politicians at risk.

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.