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Wit is educated insolence.

Tags: Educated, Intelligence  ✍ Author: Maya Angelou

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Tags: Knows, Place  ✍ Author: Mark Twain

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Tags: Brevity, Soul  ✍ Author: William Shakespeare

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

Tags: Hair  ✍ Author: William Shakespeare

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

Tags: Strike, Watch  ✍ Author: William Shakespeare

Wit doesn't make girls pretty.

Tags: Pretty  ✍ Author: Jeanne Calment

Silence is the wit of fools.

Tags: Fools, Silence  ✍ Author: Anatole France

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Tags: Age, Judgment  ✍ Author: Benjamin Franklin

The more wit the less courage.

Tags: Courage, Less  ✍ Author: Thomas Fuller

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Tags: Brainy, Food  ✍ Author: William Hazlitt

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Tags: Bitter, Flowers  ✍ Author: John Lubbock

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

Tags: Soul  ✍ Author: W. Somerset Maugham

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Tags: Ability, Substitute  ✍ Author: W. Somerset Maugham

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

Tags: Dangerous, Knows  ✍ Author: Michel de Montaigne

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Tags: Emotion, Epitaph  ✍ Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Tags: Judgment, Less  ✍ Author: William Penn

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Tags: Art, Human  ✍ Author: Alexander Pope

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Tags: Humor, Lowest  ✍ Author: Alexander Pope

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

Tags: Dunce, Wits  ✍ Author: Alexander Pope

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Tags: Causes, Conceit  ✍ Author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

Tags: Confidence  ✍ Author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit.

Tags: Charm, Powerful  ✍ Author: Isabel Yosito
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You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready.

Tags: Ready, Tell  ✍ Author: Henny Youngman

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

Tags: Cannot, Complain  ✍ Author: James Boswell

Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

Tags: Idiot, Indeed  ✍ Author: Edith Cavell

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

Tags: Grave, Marriage  ✍ Author: Edith Cavell

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

Tags: Great, Pass  ✍ Author: Leslie Charteris

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

Tags: Genius, Literature  ✍ Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

Tags: Cut, Diamond  ✍ Author: William Congreve

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

Tags: Glorious, Treat  ✍ Author: Noel Coward

I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled.

Tags: Fueled, Keeping  ✍ Author: Janice Dickinson

I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to ambition and wit.

Tags: Ambition, Crazy  ✍ Author: Ashley Greene

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

Tags: Folly, Weapon  ✍ Author: Anthony Hope

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

Tags: Cannot, Fashion  ✍ Author: Neil Kinnock

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

Tags: Humor, Truth  ✍ Author: Stan Laurel

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

Tags: Dislike, Ordinary  ✍ Author: Stephen Leacock

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

Tags: Easy, Hard  ✍ Author: Tom Lehrer

Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.

Tags: After, Days  ✍ Author: Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin

The well of true wit is truth itself.

Tags: True, Truth  ✍ Author: George Meredith

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

Tags: Melody, Ultimately  ✍ Author: Gerry Mulligan

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

Tags: Earth, Face  ✍ Author: Arthur Murphy

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

Tags: Sinner, Woman  ✍ Author: Galen Rowell

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

Tags: Proverb, Wisdom  ✍ Author: Lord John Russell

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

Tags: Explosion, Spirit  ✍ Author: Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Tags: Mind, Noblest  ✍ Author: Anthony Shadid

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

Tags: Erected, Perfection  ✍ Author: Philip Sidney

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

Tags: Difference, Knowing  ✍ Author: Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

Don't set your wit against a child.

Tags: Against, Child  ✍ Author: Jonathan Swift

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