513 Quotes About Wit

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

I can remember the days, said the Gin-and-Ginger-Ale, when every other girl you met stood about six feet two in her dancing-shoes, and had as many curves as a Scenic Railway.

Of learned Fools I have seen ten times ten,Of unlearned wise men I have seen a hundred.

Don't be fooled by those with some smarts in mockery. Some are forced into wit because they're always wrong.

Twice the wit is needed to deal with someone with none.

...: through witty riddles and unsuspected metaphors, though ti tells us things differently to the way they are, as if it were lying, it actually obliges us to examine them more closely, and it makes us say: Ah, this is just as things are, and I dint know it.

By any ends necessary.

You forget a sad remembrance when it becomes witty.

Trumpism exists in the shallow end of the rhetorical pool—the very, very shallow end, where its users ignored the "No Diving" sign and still suffer some rocking head trauma from the experience. ... The wordfinder Republicans aren't making arguments. They're just venting, pecking like chickens for tiny fragments of snark, hoping to seem witty without actually possessing even the slightest wit.