Quotes about Wit
The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, if he was but feared; and there are thousands of the readers of romances willing to be thought wicked, if they may be allowed to be wits.
- Samuel Johnson
The Phoenix riddle hath more witBy us, we two being one, are it.So to one neutral thing both sexes fit,We die and rise the same, and proveMysterious by this love.
- John Donne
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, The Element of fire is quite put out; The Sun is lost, and th'earth, and no mans wit Can well direct him where to looke for it ... 'Tis all in peeces, all coherence gone; All just supply, and all Relation.
- John Donne
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously
- Oscar Wilde
Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.
- Washington Irving
No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' .
- Conan O'Brien
That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
- El-P
I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math.
- Tina Fey
I can give you a cup of tea in no time-and you won't meet any bores.
- Edith Wharton
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
- William Temple
A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.
- Winston Churchill
Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.
- Laurence Sterne