513 Quotes About Wit

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

Today I am amused, and I haven't seen anyone yet.

I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial.

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.

I’m not a serpent, Father. I’m a crow.

In retrospect, I am very nearly as sharp as I pretend to be.

It's an easy guess, why some get famous over night and not during the day.

Now don't let us give ourselves a parcel of airs, and pretend that the oaths we make free with in this land of liberty of ours are our own; and because we have the spirit to swear them,—imagine that we have had the wit to invent them too.