Wit Quotes

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When I'm in love, I can't stand anyone.

When I'm in love, I can't stand anyone.

Humor Funny Love Wit

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lov

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

G.K. Chesterton

Truth Wit

Twelve dead? I said. Jesus.

Twelve dead? I said. Jesus.

Funny Inspirational Humour Surprise Wit Jesus Allegory I Perhaps Short Whatever Twelve Brief Biblical Said

Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not li

Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.

Wisdom Life Art Wit

Good madonna, give me leave toprove you a fool.

Good madonna, give me leave toprove you a fool.

William Shakespeare

Humor Funny Wit Fool Labels Clown Olivia Twelfth Night

The well of true wit is truth itself

The well of true wit is truth itself

George Meredith

Truth Wit

There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it;

There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.

Poetry Wit

This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something

This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.

Humor Funny Literary Wit

If I be waspish, best beware my sting.

If I be waspish, best beware my sting.

William Shakespeare

Women Wit Repartee Wasps

I would have grown up to be a gentleman adventurer if I were

I would have grown up to be a gentleman adventurer if I were more of a gentleman.

Humor Funny Inspirational Wit Inspirational Humor

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

Wit Sarcasm Wilde Oscar

I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its bound

I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min

Success Wit Limits

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

Manners Wit

Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked th

Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up and running around with blunt weapons, and people selling hot dogs, and the girls all miserable because they can only dress up as wenches, wenching being the only job available to women in the olden days.

Terry Pratchett

Funny Women History Humour Wit Hobbies Dress Up Historical Larps Reenactment Wenches

There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing

There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing

Humor Funny Wit Jane Austen

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

Humor Funny Books Writing Wit On Writing

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Intelligence Wit Irony T Shirt Quotation

The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show

The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.

William Shakespeare

Funny Wit

Wit is cultured insolence.

Wit is cultured insolence.

Wit

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they hav

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre

Life Morality Wit