Quotes About Wit

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

Wit and high spirits and a sense of fun- yes, they're wonderful things. But a sense of humour- a real one- is a rarity and can be utter hell. Because it's immoral, you know, in the real sense of the word: I mean, it makes its own laws; and it possesses the person who has it like a demon. Fools talk about it as though it were the same thing as a sense of balance, but believe me, it's not. It's a sense of anarchy, and a sense of chaos. Thank God it's rare.

Grace rose from her chair and Elizabeth too came to her feet. "I thought your arse would be sore by now," said Grace. "It is a bit." "You have to be careful when you ask the Irish to tell you a story.

You have this maddening little smile sometimes, like you've just thought of something incredibly witty but are afraid to say it in case no one gets the joke.

Still here, Faulkner? Luke sneered. Still doing that terrible impression of Draco Malfoy? I asked.

I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.

Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

With a ready tongue and rapier wit, Hamilton could wound people more than he realized, and he was so nimble in debate that even bright people sometimes felt embarrassingly tongue-tied in his presence.

Wit not well govern'd rankles into vice / He to his Jest his Friend will sacrifice!

people are much more interesting when they have a bit of a bite. We

I already know I'm smarter than an armadillo.

You're pretty quick for an old guy," he said. "That's how I got to be an old guy

She tinged her attitude with a gentle mocking humor which saved people from hating her.

You're pretty quick for an old guy," he said. "That's how I got to be an old guy," McGrath said back.

The good thing about complete darkness is you can lie there quietly and let the other person rethink the smart-alecky thing they have just said. With any luck they'll begin to regret it, or possibly they'll believe you have a magnificent rejoinder in mind but are too well-adjusted to use it.

must be lonesome, being bright and witty and aware

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.

Yes, after all, if I were to join you, I might enjoy myself, and wouldn't that be a shame? Please, don't spare me another thought.

So, ah, who's the lucky girl?" Sam asked, waggling his eyebrows suggestively. When Jericho ignored him, Sam grabbed one of Jericho's Civil War soldier figurines and held it up to his mouth. "Oh, Jericho," he said in a high-pitched voice. "Take me in your arms, you big he-man, you!" "Please put General Meade back in Gettysburg. You're changing the course of the war. And it's just a date.

No. I like my girls fully conscious when I kiss 'em. I'm funny that way

it's unsportsmanlike to engage in a battle of wits with anyone who is obviously unarmed.

Jaunti, who was half Qwilleran's age, now had the gall to write a column of wit and wisdom from the Delphic heights of his adolescent ignorance.