Quotes About Wit

Sam had laced nearly everything in the paper with his screwball wit—proposing in one news item that a newly enacted whiskey tax made it a patriotic duty to drink.)

Only novels! Only some work in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language!

Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining them not all that difficult.

Watch it, minx, he warned with a lift of his brow. If you intend to taunt me for every foolish statement I've made in my life, you'll force me to play Rockton and lock you up in my dark, forbidding manor while I have my wicked way with you. That sounds perfectly awful,she said gazing at the man she loved. How soon can we start?

I don't say my golf game is bad but if I grew tomatoes they'd come up sliced.

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor

Este clar c? femeile sunt mai deÅŸtepte decît b?rbaÅ£ii. GîndiÅ£i-v? — cel mai bun prieten al lor sînt diamantele; cel mai bun prieten al b?rbaÅ£ilor este cîinele.

Say what you will, he proves to us, in spite of the most debasing experiences that life can offer a man, the spirit of love survives to ennoble our lives if we have the wit and the courage and the faith – and the art! to persist.

Ambrose Bierce

Jezal had often observed that the ever so slightly stupid will act more stupidly in clever company. Having lost the high ground already, they scramble eagerly for the position of likable idiot, stay out of arguments they will only lose, and hence be everyone's friend,

I apologise if I bore you!' 'I accept your apology.' 'I was joking!' 'Ah. Your wit is so very sharp I hardly noticed I was cut.

The ever so slightly stupid will act more stupidly in clever company.

Truly clever things are said with short words. Long ones are used to hide stupidity

Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behavior.

Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behaviour.

I know you're a great fencer, but I've been told your wit is even sharper than your sword. So much so in fact, that you only use your sword upon your friends, as your wit is far too deadly.

Jezal had often observed that the ever so slightly stupid will act more stupidly in clever company.

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated." Gustave Le Bon

You must be joking.' 'I save my jokes for those with a sense of humour.

It took me a moment to realize he was joking. He was very dry. He didn't even smile at his own jokes, let alone laugh at them. Didn't give you any clues he was being funny. Oh

And I'm a little mean to people who are dumb. And most people are dumb.

You cannot compile a wit out of two half-wits.