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Wit Quotes
Sharp lines built on cleverness and timing.
These wit quotes look at cleverness as a skill of its own, from a sharp retort to the poise of knowing exactly what to say. For a related trait, see our Ability quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Diamond
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Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
- Quote
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- Learn
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In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
- Less
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The more wit the less courage.
- Great
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The Americans just have a great sort of wit about them.
- Leader
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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
- Favor
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
- Indeed
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Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.
- Knowing
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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
- Proverb
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A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
- Pretty
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Wit doesn't make girls pretty.
- Sinner
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Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
- True
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