There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
Digression is the soul of wit.
Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.
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)
There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.
Wit is a thing capable of proof.
They have a plentiful lack of wit.
As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.
There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
Wit is like caviar - it should be served in small portions and not spread about like marmalade.
Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.
Your wit is always such a delight, Mr. Zeklos. I can barely contain myself around it.
Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining them not all that difficult.
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.
Anyway Ri Ri what rhymes wit your name really? Money got you vacationing in Chile
Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.