Quotes About Wit

The wisdom that is from above, is not only pure, but also peaceable and gentle; and the lack of these qualifications, like the dead fly in the jar of ointment, will spoil the fragrance and efficacy of our labors. If we act in a wrong spirit—we shall bring little glory to God; do little good to our fellow creatures; and procure neither honor nor comfort to ourselves! If you can be content with showing your wit, and gaining the laugh on your side—you have an easy task!

Not to pun at all would be more challenging than most people might imagine.

The younger brother hath the more wit.

He who laughs last is generally the one that thought fastest on his feet

One man's wit, and all men's wisdom.

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

He that will give himself to all manner of ways to get money may be rich; so he that lets fly all he knows or thinks may by chance be satirically witty. Honesty sometimes keeps a man from growing rich, and civility from being witty.

No man is the wiser for his learning. It may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon, but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.

For all our wit and reading brings us to a truer sense of sorrow.

Thou art happy that thou hast not understanding to know thy misery; for all our wit and reading brings us to a truer sense of sorrow.

The one thing you are not good at is playing dumb.

It was wonderful flirting with him, all the razor-edged literary banter, like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. A battle of wit, and a test, too.

If you have to say you're kidding, it might not be a great joke.

I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.

The real wit tells jokes to make others feel superior, while the half-wit tells them to make others feel small.

Esme Rawlings is as intelligent as she is dissolute.

night on the way here, and he has twice the brains of my father.

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

Seinfeld tiene un chiste adecuado para cualquier momento de la vida.

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

My whole family is very sarcastic and constantly making jokes.

If anybody could have any doubt about the liveliness of Shakespeare, let them consider the character of Falstaff. When a man has created that without a capacity for laughter, then a blind man may succeed in describing colors. Intense animal spirits are the single sentiment (if they be a sentiment) of the entire character. If most men were to save up all the gaiety of their whole lives, it would come about to the gaiety of one speech in Falstaff.