Quotes About Wit

My girlfriend told me that she was seeing another man. I told her to rub her eyes.

But you'd best get moving lad. If we lie here too long our nuts will freeze to the ground." "Fine words for a pastor," Jake said. "No man that hath his stones broken shall come nigh to the offerings of the Lord," the pastor said with a straight face. "Now you're just making shit up," Jake replied.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Thy quips and thy quiddities.

I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter,When you are waspish.

Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humor? No; the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

They have a plentiful lack of wit.

He uses his folly like a stalking horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

What! my dear Lady Disdain, are you yet living?

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,To stir men's blood: I only speak right on.

Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

What he hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit, till I break my shins against it.

A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in, the wit is out.

There's a skirmish of wit between them.

That's the humor of it.

Who wears his wit in his belly, and his guts in his head.

Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.

Your wit's too hot, it speeds too fast, 'twill tire.

Benedick the married man.

He is winding the watch of his wit by and by it will strike.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

This fellow's wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit.