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The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don't know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds.

It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers.