(725 quotes found)
“When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness”
Hesiod
“He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.”
William Shakespeare
“Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade”
Noel Coward
“You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.”
Neil Kinnock
“No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool”
George Savile
“There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought”
Pierre Bayle
“Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.”
Sir Philip Sidney
“Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants”
Elizabeth Montagu
“Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?”
Philip Larkin
“Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.”
Walter Savage Landor
