Quotes About Wit

Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

I like a thin book because it will steady a table, a leather volume because it will strop a razor and a heavy book because it can be thrown at a cat.

It is ingeniously named, for it looks just as a cross would look if it looked like something else.

I`ve had a very difficult life. Fortunately, most of it didn`t happen.

I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure. -

you give me much more of your sass I'll take and bounce a rock off'n your head.

Tout les jours you are coming some fresh game or other on me, mais vous ne pouvez pas play this savon dodge on me twice!

If a stranger called and interrupted you, you said with your hearty tongue, I'm glad to see you, and said with your heartier soul, I wish you were with the cannibals and it was dinner-time. When

You do beat all for natural stupidness.

wit and indelicacy being sometimes better literature-preservers than holiness.

Say," said Ham Sandwich

All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.

As for me, I'm a gurgling wizard of calorific excess.

Lizzyboo digs me, which is just as well, because if she wants to find the way to my heart she's going to need a fucking shovel. She's going to need to dig up London Fields.

Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. a beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time.

reason. Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux qui ont de l'esprit!" "You see!" said Athelney Jones, reappearing down the steps

Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux qui ont de l'esprit!

A veces encuentra algo- comentó Holmes, encogiéndose de hombros-. De cuando en cuando tiene algún chispaso de razón, il n'y a pas des sots si incomodes que ceux qui ont de l'ésprit! ( Los tontos que más molestan son los que tienen ingenio)

Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux ont de l'esprit.

to the girl. "Ha'penny," he muttered. To me, he said, "I know why your nose is so long, Cap'n. You use it to poke into business 'tisn't yours." "True." I touched the

You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.