Wit Quotes

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

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.

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

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

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

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

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

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?

Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

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

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

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment.

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever -- one day we will overhear it.

Jewelry continues to be fun and expressive this season. It just ads a touch of eclectic wit to an outfit.

There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.

Women everywhere fell head over heels for his charm, wit and warmth and now we're giving you the chance to marry him!

Her wit, comic timing, and her relationship with the artists bring a dynamic to the awards that I think is unprecedented in our industry.