Wit Quotes

Sharp lines built on cleverness and timing.

These wit quotes look at cleverness as a skill of its own, from a sharp retort to the poise of knowing exactly what to say. For a related trait, see our Ability quotes.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Quotes by William Penn

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

Quotes by William Congreve

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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

Quotes by Virgil Thomson

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Quotes by Thomas Shadwell

The more wit the less courage.

Quotes by Thomas Fuller

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

Quotes by Stan Laurel

Solving wits and puzzles, in a way, helps to develop wit and ingenuity.

Quotes by Shakuntala Devi

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Americans just have a great sort of wit about them.

Quotes by Peter Capaldi

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

Quotes by Paul McCartney

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

Quotes by Montesquieu

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.

Quotes by Mark Van Doren

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

Quotes by Margaret Cavendish

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

Quotes by Madame de Stael

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

Quotes by Lord John Russell

Wit doesn't make girls pretty.

Quotes by Jeanne Calment

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

Quotes by Helen Rowland

The well of true wit is truth itself.

Quotes by George Meredith

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