Quotes About Wit

Revolutions are ideal times for soldiers with a lot of wit — and the courage to act.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.

I become facetious when perplexed. Right now I am perplex'd in the extreme.

God, they don't call you Sherlock for nothing, do they?

Unusual to find a caterer who knows Caesar's commentary." "You really know how to endear yourself to a girl.

But satire, ever moral, ever new,Delights the reader and instructs him, too.She, if good sense refine her sterling page,Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.

Sometimes darkness rode him like a harpy, but still. Funny. My Lord, he was funny. Even when his life was ricocheting from city to wife to book to tragedy—of which there were more than a few—he remained one of the funniest men I ever knew.

However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.

It's a pity you didn't have a little more brandy. It might have made you more agreeable!

Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.

irony without humor is violence.

You know," said Grover, "the only thing worse than a smart-assed lawyer is a dumb-assed lawyer.

I'll have what she's having.

The function of art—Freud says "wit"—is to help us find our way back to sources of pleasure that have been rendered inaccessible by the capitulation to the reality-principle which we call education or maturity—in other words, to regain the lost laughter of infancy

In serene souls there is no jesting. Jesting indicates a loss of equilibrium; it is both a succession of disturbances and the center's restoration. The sharpest wit has passion. The condition of the dissolution of all proportion - despair and spiritual death - is most fearfully witty.

Too clever is dumb.

Philo Vance / Needs a kick in the pance.

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

Both wit and understanding are trifles, without integrity; it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many; for what is genius or courage without an heart?

People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.