513 Quotes About Wit

Banality is the biggest source of existential angst for the educated middle class.

If our friend steals our ideas, it proves that he esteems us: He would not take them unless he thought they were good. We are wrong in being annoyed that, for want of children of his own, he adopts ours.

Maybe that wasn't logical, but maybe the thing we call logic is overrated.

I can write faster than anyone who can write better, and I can write better than anyone who can write faster.

A keen wit stabs harder than a finely honed argument.

For all our wit and reading brings us to a truer sense of sorrow.

The stale cerebral self-conscious wit that bubbled like a frothy mold in every corner of Cambridge

Nothing is so much admired, and so little understood, as wit.

There are so many "tools for life" that you are going to hear about, every day. But obviously I tell my son what I believe in most of all. I always tell my son, "The wheels that are going to get you through daily life are two things: Humour and Wit. Add a cup of humour and a cup of wit to every hour of your life and these are the wheels that will keep you turning." Humour and Wit. Remember that.