Quotes About Wit

Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.

Laugh a little when the joke's on you

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought and not as many of those who worry about their shortcomings believe an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.

Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.

Dad was synonymous with his charm and wit and grace, and it was sort of the perfect way to go for him.

My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.

Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up

But wit or irony is like a hitch in his swing for a kid like the Swede, irony being a human consolation and beside the point if you're getting your way as a god.

Lewis had developed a trademark style, slow enough for note taking, loud enough to rouse the dullest listener, straightforward, abundantly furnished with quotations, and lavish in wit.

when i first saw him i thought he was as beautiful as a knight from the romances, like a troubadour, like a poet. I thought i could be like a lady in a tower and he could sing beneath my window and persuade me to love him. But although he has the looks of a poet he doesn't have the wit. I can never get more than two words out of him, and i begin to feel that i demean myself in trying to please him.

Tant d'histoire, dit le duc d'Auge au duc d'Auge, tant d'histoire pour quelques calembours, pour quelques anachronismes! Je trouve cela misérable. On n'en sortira donc jamais?

Tant d'histoire, dit le duc d'Auge au duc d'Auge, tant d'histoire por quelques calembours, pour quelques anachronismes! Je trouve cela misérable. On n'en sortira donc jamais?

No man has wit enough to reason with a fool, Zin.

Bishop was all done with the witty conversation. 'Will you swear?' And Myrnin said, shockingly, 'I will.' And he proceeded to, a string of swearwords that made Claire blink. He ended with, '—frothy fool-born apple-john! Cheater of vandals and defiler of dead dogs!' and did another twirl and bow. He looked up with a red, red grin that was more like a leer. 'Is that what you meant, my lord?

Did he just say--? Yes, Claire said, smiling. Yes, he did. Whoa. Guess I'd better stay alive, then.

What's possible?' she asked. 'Anything,' he said absently. 'But that's not what I was talking about. Oh, hello, Claire. You're in good time. I need an extra pair of hands.' 'As long as I keep them attached,' she said, which earned her a startled stare. The things you say to me, you'd think I was some sort of monster.

Expecting anybody else?' Shane asked Eve. 'Your distant cousin Jack the Ripper dropping by too?' 'Screw you, Collins.

Bite me, Goth princess," Shane called from the back. "Not literally or anything." "Maybe you should say that to Michael." "Not funny, Eve," Michael said. Eve raised her eyebrows and held her fingers up, measuring off about an inch. "Little bit," she said.

Sam talking to a frat boy - You. O Positive. How many exits? What?....Oh shit, did you just call me by my blood type?

Take the back door, she said. Claire, you and your strang friend- Eve, they both said simultaneously, and Eve held out her fst for a bump. Or, you could call me Eve the Great, Mistress of All She Surveys. Eve for short.

EVE:so thats the bathroom where shane spends houres doing his hair shane:bite me