Wit

Rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,With better appetite.

— Wit

His eye begets occasion for his wit;The other turns to a mirth-moving jest.

— Wit

Your wit's too hot, it speeds too fast, 'twill tire.

— Wit

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them;But, in the less, foul profanation.

— Wit

He doth, indeed, show some sparks that are like wit.

— Wit

A good old man, sir: he will be talking, as they say, When the age is in, the wit is out.

— Wit

Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily.

— Wit

Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound's mouth; it catches.

— Wit

To leave this keen encounter of our wits,And fall somewhat into a slower method.

— Wit

Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting: it is most sharp sauce.

— Wit

Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

— Wit

Those wits that think they have thee, do very oft prove fools; and I, that am sure I lack thee, may pass for a wise man; for what says Quinapalus? "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."

— Wit

Against their wills what numbers ruin shun,That wit's a jewel which we need not wear.

— Wit

As in smooth oil the razor best is whet,Both pain us least when exquisitely keen.

— Wit

An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow.

— Wit

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

— Wit

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

— Wit

Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark.

— Wit

Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.

— Wit

Wit will shineThrough the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

— Wit

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

— Wit

At our wittes end.

— Wit

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.

— Wit

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.

— Wit

A man does not please long when he has only one species of wit.

— Wit

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

— Wit

Mother Wit. (Nature's mother wit).

— Wit

Have you summoned your wits from wool-gathering?

— Wit

Whose wit, in the combat, as gentle as bright,Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.

— Wit

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

— Wit

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

— Wit

You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come;Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.

— Wit

Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.

— Wit

Generally speaking there is more wit than talent in this world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

— Wit

Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.

— Wit

Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumers, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to "charm his pained steps over the burning marle."

— Wit

Surprise is so essential an ingredient of wit that no wit will bear repetition;—at least the original electrical feeling produced by any piece of wit can never be renewed.

— Wit

One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.

— Wit

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

— Wit

It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.

— Wit

It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.

— Wit

Too much wit makes the world rotten.

— Wit

And wit its honey lent, without the sting.

— Wit

Good wits will jump.

— Wit

He had too thoughtful a wit: like a penknife in too narrow a sheath, too sharp for his body.

— Wit

Nae wut without a portion o' impertinence.

— Wit

Though I am young, I scorn to flitOn the wings of borrowed wit.

— Wit

For when the wine is in, the wit is out.

— Wit

Aristotle said * * * melancholy men of all others are most witty.

— Wit

We grant, although he had much wit,As men their best apparel do.

— Wit

Great wits and valours, like great states,Do sometimes sink with their own weights.

— Wit

His wit invites you by his looks to come,But when you knock, it never is at home.

— Wit

Great wits are sure to madness near allied,And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

— Wit

Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no wit for so much room.

— Wit

As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.

— Wit

He must be a dull Fellow indeed, whom neither Love, Malice, nor Necessity, can inspire with Wit.

— Wit

To the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.

— Wit

Wit's an unruly engine, wildly strikingHave got to be a deare fool for an houre.

— Wit

This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords.

— Wit

Wit: a form of sex display.

— Wit

For wit and judgment often are at strife,Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.

— Wit

So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit,As bodies perish through excess of blood.

— Wit

How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

— Wit

If faith itself has different dresses worn,What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?

— Wit

You have a nimble wit; I think it was made of Atalanta's heels.

— Wit

Make the doors upon a woman's wit and it will out at the casement; shut that and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.

— Wit

Since brevity is the soul of wit,I will be brief.

— Wit

They have a plentiful lack of wit.

— Wit

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

— Wit