So is there any part of you that’s not a lethal weapon? (Kiara) No. Even my wits are sharpened. (Nykyrian)
Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former's relentless experimentation, the latter's effortless wit, and their mutual inventiveness in work that defies category.
If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.
The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response.
Where there is a will there's a law suit.
There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. Cardinal du Perron has been heard to say that the happy application of a verse of Virgil has deserved a talent.
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if you behave properly wit those holding divergent views from you or who criticize you, then you deserve to be credited with having an excellent character. (p. 99)
Diana Vreeland was "the Empress," the avatar of the age. An old name or old money were not enough to get you into Studio 54 - or Interview magazine, for that matter. You had to have a lot of something else, like looks or brains or wit or fabulous clothes.
And writers say, as the most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, Even so by love the young and tender wit Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud, Losing his verdure even in the prime, And all the fair effects of future hopes.
Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.
A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength. . . Romance also helps.
Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.
Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. ' 'And yet it is still extremely funny.