The
witty woman is a tragic figure in American life.
Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys
wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
View quotes by Florence KingIt has always been the prerogative of children and half-
wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-
wit remains a half-
wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
View quotes by Neil GaimanAt twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the
wit; and at forty, the judgement.
View quotes by Benjamin FranklinA proverb is one man's
wit and all men's wisdom.
View quotes by Lord John RussellWit is educated insolence
View quotes by AristotleA fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of
wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool
View quotes by Joseph RouxLet the scintillations of your
wit be like the coruscations of summer lightning, lambent but innocuous.
View quotes by Edward Meyrick GoulburnAll the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral or fattening (
Wit's End)
View quotes by Alexander WoollcottHere lies a king, that ruled as he thought fit
The universal monarchy of
wit (An Elegy upon the Death of Dr John Donne)
View quotes by Thomas CarewMarriage is the grave or tomb of
witView quotes by Margaret CavendishThe man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a
wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
View quotes by CiceroWhat is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and
wit its soul.
View quotes by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeShe had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for
wit.
View quotes by W Somerset MaughamNext to being
witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's
wit.
View quotes by Christian Nestell BoveeWhen the green woods laugh
with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh
with our merry
wit, And the green hill laughs
with the noise of it.
View quotes by Lord ByronThe Cardinal is at his
wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
View quotes by Lord ByronMaking a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native
wit to be an author.
View quotes by Jean De La BruyereOne should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and
wit.
View quotes by Jean De La BruyereAnd new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans
wit can well direct him where to look for it.
View quotes by John DonneDon't set your
wit against a child.
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