wit quotes

There’s many a man has more hair than wit.

People are always asking me in interviews, ‚What do you think of foreign affairs?‘ I just say, ‚I’ve had a few.‘

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

You have a ready wit. Tell me when it’s ready.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Some sarcasm is best told simply.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Wit is educated insolence.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don’t notice they’re getting made fun of. So they’ll say something back that’s not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.