Quotes About Wit

Miss Austen's novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer … is marriageableness.

For every grain of wit, there is a grain of folly. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something

Character and wit have their own magnetism. Send a deep man into any town, and he will find another deep man there, unknown hitherto to his neighbors. That is the great happiness of life, — to add to our high acquaintances.

We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

Spurgeon used his wit to provoke laughter in private and in public. He said in one of his sermons, "If by a laugh I can make men see the folly of an error better than in any other way, they shall laugh.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!

For, let's face it, digression is the soul of wit. Take philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

I suppose it's an unconscious little stream of wit that flows quietly under everything I do or say.

But stop and think. What does the word with truly mean? Wits, intelligence. That's all it means. Knowledge so any man or woman with half a brain and inclination toward learning had his wits about him, ey? And so anyone too smart who didn't watch out, was called a witch.

Yes, but there are so many young girls." "You're everything they're not. Kind, intelligent, witty…" "Nonsense. Kindness and intelligence are the preoccupations of age. Being cruel and thoughtless is far more fascinating when you're twenty.

DopuÅ¡tím se malé ironie. A není sluÅ¡né nÄ›koho pÃ…â"¢eruÅ¡ovat, zrovna když se dopouÅ¡tí malé ironie. No tak!

He was one of those people with lots of intelligence but no brains

And if that wasn't funny, there were lots of things that weren't even funnier.

What do you call a rifle with three barrels? A trifle.

She's terse. I can be terse. Once, in flight school, I was laconic.

I'm assuming you're as mystified by this as the rest of us, Rasputin. No. I'm not. I have been planning to destroy the Breakworld since I was a child. [silence] This is why I don't make so many jokes. I never know when is good.

Your Mama's so stupid- Lassiter dematerialized and re-formed on the far side, spinning the rods- she thinks a California dime is something you dial a phone with. ~ Lassiter ' The Shadows' page 11

Did she really tell Roddy Carstairs she could outshoot him with his own pistol? No, Jason said dryly. She told him that if he made one more improper advance to her, she would shoot him- and if she missed, she would turn Wolf loose on him. And if Wolf didn't finish the job, she had every faith I would. Jason chuckled and shook his head. It's the first time I've been nominated for the role of hero. I was a little crushed, however, to be second choice after the dog.

I am an accomplished flirt and you are a sublime fool.

I am terribly glad to be alive and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American with all the rights and privileges that those words connote. And most of all I am humbled before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.

Ingenio: sutileza, perspicacia, chispa, inspiración, mente despejada y libre, no atada a condiciones previas asfixiantes. Distanciamiento: alejarse de uno mismo, alejarse del "yo" y sus inseguridades, del ego y su vanidad, poner la lógica entre paréntesis y tomar lo paradójico y lo incomprensible como punto de partida para crear humor en cantidades. Ingenio + capacidad de distanciamiento cognitivo = salud mental