(693 quotes found)
“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
Oscar Wilde
“At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
Dorothy Parker
“My presence of mind is frequently absent.”
Rain Bojangles
“Wit is cultured insolence.”
Aristotle
“Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enought to be honest”
“Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning”
“Silence is the wit of fools.”
Anatole France
“You know I am a woman, lacking wit.”
William Shakespeare