Wit Quotes - Page 17

• Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Men, Greatest Treasure

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• There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

  Jane Austen

  Stupid, Prejudice, Common

  Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.108, Oxford University Press

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• For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Blood, Boredom

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [225]

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• She looked so beautiful in the moonlight, but it wasn't only the way she looked, it was what was inside her, everything from her intelligence and courage to her wit, and the special smile she gave only to him. He would slay a dragon, if there were such a thing, just to see that smile. He knew he would never want anyone else for as long as he lived. He would rather spend the rest of his life alone than with someone else. There could be no one else.

  Terry Goodkind

  Beautiful, Dragons, Long

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• Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did," the officer observed.

  Carolyn Keene

  Girl, Way, Used

  Carolyn Keene (1930). “The Secret of the Old Clock: 80th Anniversary Limited Edition”, p.94, Penguin

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• I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Character, Loss

  "Emerson: Selected Journals 1841 - 1877" by Lawrence Rosenwald (p. 768), 2010.

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• The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could come to definition. But the puny of soul, the dull of wit, weren't content with that. They wanted to hang a face on the Divine. They went so far as to attribute petty human emotions - anger, jealousy, etc - to it, not stopping to realize that if God were a being, even a supreme being, our prayers would have bored him to death long ago.

  Tom Robbins

  Prayer, Knowing, Long Ago

  "Skinny Legs and All". Book by Tom Robbins, 1990.

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• Have you seen them?" he asked. Arrow looked at him disinterestedly. Will frowned. Not talking, eh?" he said. "Maybe you're a little hoarse." He cackled breifly at his own wit.

  John Flanagan

  Talking, Arrows, Littles

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• Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine Greer

  Andrew Carnegie

  Home, Dark, Light

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• No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are going to leave the path, you better have your wits about you and know better than to trust the first scary old lady who talks to you in public.

  Nick Harkaway

  Scary, Stories, Path

  Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-away World”, Random House

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• I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Shrimp, Jeeves, Pity

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• Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Want, Juliet

  William Shakespeare (1829). “Dramatic Works: Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone”, p.780

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• In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.

  Josh Billings

  Dog, Tails, World

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• So is there any part of you that’s not a lethal weapon? (Kiara) No. Even my wits are sharpened. (Nykyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Weapons, Lethal Weapon

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• With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Eye, Tragedy, Married

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.902, Delphi Classics

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• Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Witty, Hands, Habit

  "Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs".

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• They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said. China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.

  Derek Landy

  Sarcasm, Form, China

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• This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Art, Fall

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will”, p.156, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

  Alexander Pope

  Judgment, Critics

  Alexander Pope (1825). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.49

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• As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.

  David Eddings

  Falling In Love, Bottom, Dribble

  "The Belgariad". Book by David Eddings, 1993.

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• Your wit is always such a delight, Mr. Zeklos. I can barely contain myself around it.

  Richelle Mead

  Delight, I Can

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.385, Penguin

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• Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)

  Rollo May

  Country, Communication, Views

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• The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

  George Eliot

  Cute, Idiot, Troublesome

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.206, Penguin

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• Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Will you just put a stopper in it?" She looked at me and sighed. "Girl, do you ever take a breath and wonder if folk don't put out bait for you? To see if you'll bite? You'll never get a man if you don't relax." My dear old Gran. It's a wonder her children aren't every one of them as mad as priests, if she mangles their wits as she mangles mine. "Granny, "I told her, "this is dead serious. I can't relax, no more than any Dog. I'm not shopping for a man. That's the last thing I need.

  Tamora Pierce

  Girl, Dog, Children

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• All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it. But all determinations of the understanding are not right; because they have a reference to something beyond themselves, to wit, real matter of fact; and are not always conformable to that standard.

  David Hume

  Determination, Real, Men

  David Hume (2015). “Of the Standard of Taste”, p.4, David Hume

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