Quotes about Wit

I can give you a cup of tea in no time-and you won't meet any bores.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

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.

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.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

She does not know what she says. Will you ruin her, because she has not wit to help herself? Get up! You could be free instantly. That is the most diabolical deed that ever you did. We are all done for—master, mistress, and servant.

Intelligence is the sexiest thing in the world.

My dear Watson," he said, "you aren't supposed to be as clever as this.

We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

Spurgeon used his wit to provoke laughter in private and in public. He said in one of his sermons, "If by a laugh I can make men see the folly of an error better than in any other way, they shall laugh.

Peter: Oy! Harriet: Hullo! Peter: I just wanted to ask whether you'd given any further thought to that suggestion about marrying me. Harriet (sarcastically) : I suppose you were thinking how delightful it would be to go through life together like this? Peter: Well, not quite like this. Hand in hand was more my idea. Harriet: What is that in your hand? Peter: A dead starfish. Harriet: Poor fish! Peter: No ill-feeling, I trust? Harriet: Oh, dear no.

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, all flock to their aid.