Famous Wit Quotes - Famous Quotes about Wit
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire
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As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers.
- Plato
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He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
- William Shakespeare
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He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
- James Boswell
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No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
- Kin Hubbard
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Of course, it's very easy to be witty tomorrow, after you get a chance to do some research and rehearse your ad libs.
- Joey Adams
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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.
- Dorothy Nevill
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The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
- Edward Abbey
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The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit.
- Christian Nestell Bovee
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There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
- Dorothy Parker
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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
- Andre Maurois
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Women and men of wit are dangerous tools,
And ever fatal to admiring fools.
- John Wilmot
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You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry
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