Quotes About Wit

Every day I think, 'Gosh, I wish I could be like George Carlin, Bill Maher: I want that edge.' But every time I start to get that edgy thing, I get kind of mean.

My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs.

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

I'm a quick wit, straight to the point, no nonsense.

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

There's many a man has more hair than wit.

The more wit the less courage.

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

Knowledge, information, wit, and the way you disseminate these attributes can often prove to be a more disarming weapon against an enemy or some with whom your ideology is in conflict, than violence or lethal weapons.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.