119 Wit Quotes for You to Enjoy

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers. Lucretius

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Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years. Margaret Cavendish

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I learnt so much wit, really, from the Globe audiences. If you can make a circle, even in a proscenium theater, if you can get a circular energy going, so that all these people are involved with it and present, then there is something curious that happens with the imagination. Mark Rylance

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Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it. Mary Astell

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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. Michel de Montaigne

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Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him. Minna Antrim

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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature. Montesquieu

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You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits. Neil Kinnock

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I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there. Neil Patrick Harris

When doing family entertainment, you don't actually worry about kids. You know what you can't do. But in terms of sensibility and sophistication and wit and ambition, aim for your own taste level, and kids will - if they're interested in the subject matter - be glad that you did. Nina Jacobson

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Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade. Noel Coward

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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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One of the great things about the 'Iron Man' franchise is that they employ fascinating actors who don't necessarily do action movies. Before 'Iron Man' you didn't associate Robert Downey, Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow with those kinds of films. There's an emphasis on repartee and wit. Rebecca Hall

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Though not really a comedy, 'Rosewater' is a demonstration of the creed behind 'The Daily Show': belief in the crucial need for impious wit against entrenched power. The freedom of the press is also the freedom to depress - and to inspire. That's a message that can outlive any Oscar season. Richard Corliss

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If you were a kid in the 1950s, and you got nightmares from a story in a horror comic book, you have Al Feldstein to blame. If you were a kid in the '60s or '70s, giggling at 'MAD's prankster wit, you have Feldstein to thank. Richard Corliss

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Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented. Richard Roeper

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It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. Robert Herrick

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I've never, ever in my life touched a photographer. Some of the cruellest things I've ever said have been to photographers who are chasing me down the street, some of the sharpest, most efficient emotional barbs. And they know that in that moment, in that one-to-one wit competition, they just got smashed. Russell Crowe

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What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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I love watching action films, and especially the little moments of wit and humor in the choreography in a lot of them. The editing of an action sequence often has great moments of comic timing. Susanna Fogel

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