Quotes About Wit

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense! If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day; Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.

He is the English Horace

She sins with poets through pure love of wit

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true; For envied wit, like Sol eclips'd, makes known Th' opposing body's grossness, not its own.

Authors are partial to their wit

In search of wit these lose their common sense

True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.

Pride where wit fails steps in to our defense, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, Make use of every friend—and every foe.

To me what Nature has in charms denied, Is well by Wit's more lasting flames supplied.

Those half-learn'd witlings, num'rous in our isle As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile

Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genius fit; So vast is art, so narrow human wit:

He, who supreme in judgment, as in wit, Might boldly censure, as he boldly writ.

What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.

Try walking a mile in your enemy's shoes. You'll be a mile away and you'll have his shoes.

I wasn't the class clown. I wasn't that obvious. There would be a circle of guys, and they're watching the class clown. And I'm standing in the back, and I turn to the guy next to me and I say something funny to him, and he starts to laugh. And the guy next to him says, 'What did he say?'

Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right.

A witticism in an airport security line is like a Swiss tap - turn it on, and you instantly find yourself in hot water.

Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow.

I like poems that are little games.

Deep poignant pathos can be described better in dark humour.

I enjoy humor with a poignant touch.

David Letterman used to say, 'I wasn't the class clown, but I wrote for him,' and that's exactly it. You want to be known to be funny without having it pointed out.

As a friend once pointed out, the crotchety dowagers do tend to get all the best lines. That may be why I have so many of them in my books.