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There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle of words, and is comprehended under the general name of punning  (Wit Quotes) Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things  (Wit Quotes) Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations  (Wit Quotes) Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost  (Wit Quotes) Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused  (Wit Quotes) There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim  (Wit Quotes) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves  (Wit Quotes) One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit  (Wit Quotes) A joker is near akin to a buffoon; and neither of them is the least related to wit  (Wit Quotes) I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it  (Wit Quotes) Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense  (Wit Quotes) There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven  (Wit Quotes) Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit  (Wit Quotes) Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival  (Wit Quotes) As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature  (Wit Quotes) You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them  (Wit Quotes) Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it  (Wit Quotes) It’s just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and more time consuming, and leaves nothing for anybody to whistle  (Wit Quotes) Sloughing my skin / escaping it’s grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me  (Wit Quotes) He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice  (Wit Quotes) Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated  (Wit Quotes) She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman  (Wit Quotes) Well, I can throw a mean comeback, so there’s that. I will crush them on wit  (Wit Quotes) A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is  (Wit Quotes) It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none  (Wit Quotes) Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life  (Wit Quotes) I’ll be there for you, I will care for you, I keep thinking you just don’t know. Tryna run from that, say you’re done wit that, on your face girl it just don’t show  (Wit Quotes) How did I end up right here wit you after all the things that I been through. It’s been one of those days you try and forget about take a shot and let it out  (Wit Quotes) Wayne put me right here, that’s who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our relationship  (Wit Quotes) Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one’s wit  (Wit Quotes)
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