513 Quotes About Wit

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.

Really?""No. I'm being ironic. Or is it sarcastic? I can never remember.""Irony's cleverer, so you're probably being sarcastic.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

[On Oscar Wilde:]"If, with the literate, I amImpelled to try an epigram,I never seek to take the credit;We all assume that Oscar said it.[Life Magazine, June 2, 1927]

Men are not nearly as evolved as women are, nor as intelligent, evidently

Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.