Wit Quotes
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
William Somerset Maugham
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt
Subject: Food Quotes :: Wit QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly
Michel de Montaigne
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander Pope
Subject: Art QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike
Madame de Stael
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A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Joseph Roux
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Alexander Pope
Subject: Wit QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Alexander Pope
Subject: Humor QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Wit is the epitaph of an emotion
Friedrich Nietzsche
Subject: Wit QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Can anyone picture God telling, taking, or enjoying a good joke? The idea is laughable. The Devil, on the other hand, laughs with demonic mirth, is possessed of a sardonic wit, and his eyes hold a glint of wicked bemusement. The farthest God, in his popul...
Diane LaVey
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Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.
G.K. Chesterton
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Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
Neil Gaiman
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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
Neil Gaiman
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At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.
Benjamin Franklin
Subject: Age QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
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Wit is cultured insolence.
Aristotle
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
Subject: Brevity Quotes :: Courage QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Oscar Wilde
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There`s a very fine line between underacting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of actors are guilty of. It amazes me how some of these little numbers with dreamy looks and a dead pan are getting away wit it. I`d hate to see them on stage...
Joan Blondell
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[on Burt Reynolds] It`s the man`s tremendous wit that just keeps coming across. Listen, there is no acting style. Most people just play themselves. Spencer Tracy used to say to me after a scene, "Did I ham that one up?" If I said yes, he`d say, "Okay, let...
Myrna Loy
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[when asked if he would run for President of the United States] People wanted me to very strongly and I decided I didn`t want to do it. I sort of enjoy what I`m doing and I continue to enjoy what I`m doing. I have never had more fun. And then to cap it of...
Donald Trump
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Looks like Darva `Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?` Conger will pose naked in `Playboy` Magazine. She says the photos will be tastefully done. And who else knows more about taste than a woman who marries a man she just met on Fox? (From "The Tonigh...
Jay Leno
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Becoming a father makes us understand that we are no longer the center of the universe. It allows us to consciously feel pure love in a wonderful, but completely new way. To have a child is to live a daily and constant enchantment, but also to be tortured...
Vincent Perez
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[on Greer Garson] Very bright. Fantastically beautiful. Very much the lady. She was a great Irish wit. There are actors who work in movies. And then there are movie stars. She was a movie star.
Teresa Wright
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I think we all exude essential truths about ourselves, and then, as an actress, there`s what you do with it. There`s your wit and your imagination, and what you can cook up from your experience and understanding of what makes a human being tick.
Uma Thurman
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I can`t give you a definition [of humor]. It is too subtle to be pinned down. I can say that it differs from wit, which exaggerates the truth, while humor presents the truth in an original way.
Ed Wynn
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Getting to the theater on the early side, usually about seven o`clock, changing into a dressing-gown, applying make-up, having a chat for a few minutes with other actors and then, quite unconsciously, beginning to assume another personality which would st...
Alec Guinness
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