Wit Quotes

Wit. It's not just the ability to crack a joke; it's a rapid mental dance, a sharp touch of intellect that unveils truth in an unexpected and delightful way. It's the art of using words as a nimble weapon, breaking the ice, illuminating thought, and exposing the absurdities of the world with a smile. It distinguishes the brilliant mind that sees beyond the surface.

Discover how the wise and humorous have brilliantly wielded this remarkable talent to express their views and satire in these compelling quotes.

Quote by Mark Twain: The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous ...
Quote by Groucho Marx: With a little study you'll go a long ways, and I wish you'd start now...
Quote by Jane Austen: We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say someth...
Quote by Mark Twain: Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by h...
Quote by Mark Twain: Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on....
Quote by Groucho Marx: I'll teach you to kick me...' You don't need to teach me--I already know how!...
Quote by Oscar Wilde: Irony is wasted on the stupid...
Quote by William Shakespeare: I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit....
Quote by William Shakespeare: Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it....
Quote by William Shakespeare: He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike....
Quote by William Shakespeare: Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit;All with me's meet that I can fashion fit....
Quote by Mark Twain: Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, ...
Quote by William Shakespeare: He kills her in her own humor....
Quote by William Shakespeare: How now, wit! Whither wander you?...
Quote by William Shakespeare: Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your...
Quote by Mark Twain: Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late....
Quote by Jonathan Swift: Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it ge...
Quote by Jonathan Swift: For poetry, he's past his prime,He takes an hour to find a rhyme;His fire is out, his wit decayed,Hi...
Quote by William Shakespeare: I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!...
Quote by William Shakespeare: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce....
Quote by William Shakespeare: A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!...
Quote by Groucho Marx: You're heading for a breakdown. Why don't you pull yourself to pieces?...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of charact...
Quote by Voltaire: He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism....
Quote by Oscar Wilde: If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times...
Quote by Oscar Wilde: Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit....
Quote by William Shakespeare: This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's ped...
Quote by François de La Rochefoucauld: As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the g...
Quote by Muhammad Ali: Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough...
Quote by François de La Rochefoucauld: Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion....
Quote by Jane Austen: My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conv...
Quote by Groucho Marx: Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool yo...
Quote by Groucho Marx: A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five....
Quote by George Bernard Shaw: The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as
Quote by Victor Hugo: Puns are the droppings of soaring wits....
Quote by William Shakespeare: [S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brie...
Quote by William Shakespeare: JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name? ORLANDO: Yes, just. JAQUES: I do not like her name. ORLANDO: T...
Quote by William Shakespeare: There's many a man hath more hair than wit....
Quote by Groucho Marx: I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it....
Quote by Benjamin Franklin: Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit....
Quote by William Shakespeare: This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must obser...
Quote by Mark Twain: The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch...
Quote by William Shakespeare: Polonius: Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger....
Quote by Groucho Marx: Policeman:
Quote by Groucho Marx: Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read....
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: Wit is the epitaph of an emotion....
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile....
Quote by Jane Austen: Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side....
Quote by Mark Twain: Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhe...
Quote by William Shakespeare: Better a witty fool than a foolish wit....
Quote by Groucho Marx: Do you suppose I could buy back my introduction to you?...
Quote by William Shakespeare: They have a plentiful lack of wit....
Quote by Groucho Marx: I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up....
Quote by Jane Austen: It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are disp...
Quote by Benjamin Franklin: Ben Franklin was a little stout later in life and it was said that in Paris a young woman, tapping h...
Quote by Jane Austen: I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible....
Quote by Jane Austen: One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty....
Quote by William Shakespeare: He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit....
Quote by William Shakespeare: Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best bewar...
Quote by Jonathan Swift: If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractor...