Wit Quotes - Page 4

Help yourself with the state! It's on democracy!

Hyperbolic statements will be the death of us all

What good is it if they miss your face but not your mind?

The problem is you make the tricks look good. You are a brilliant acrobat, and a witty comedian. You are skillful. People want a fool to be foolish--trip on banana peels and grin and spout nonsense. These men want fools to make them feel better about themselves, not to remind them what they lack.

preemptive strike n.A blow or punch delivered by military aircraft to a target who is suspected of being adverse to one's plot for world domination.

Well, I can throw a mean comeback, so there's that. I will crush them on wit.

Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.

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

At last a lifetime ambition of mine to become a pimp was satisfied.

During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.

Then the small man suddenly ran after them and said:"I want to get my haircut. I say, do you know a little shop anywhere where they cut hair properly? I keep on having my hair cut, but it keeps on growing again."One of the tall men looked at him with the air of a pained naturalist.

You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

Yes, well, I'm not asking you to hide anything. Hiding won't help you. You can't very well hide from a pit, can you? You just need to avoid falling into it." - Brohan Madhrarigal

The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.

Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up and running around with blunt weapons, and people selling hot dogs, and the girls all miserable because they can only dress up as wenches, wenching being the only job available to women in the olden days.

They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said. China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.

He wasn't aware of it but when he smiled he looked like an amiable bear. When he didn't smile he didn't look amiable

Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed, fingering my useless map.

My mind ran over everything that had happened lately, and running on such thoughts made even my feet hurt.

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

To be knowledgeable, learn new things every day; to be wise, unlearn things that you learn with wit and love.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.

You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it, and you remember how they changed as they grew older and the joy of questioning everything slowly became transformed into the pain of questioning everything, like a star consuming its own core.

I hope to return. I’ll do so if I’m not killed. Probably will anyway.

Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.

An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.

When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.

Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.

M'sieur, I am as a slave to my wife." He kissed the tips of his fingers. "I am as the dirt beneath her feet." He clasped his hands. "I must bestow on her all that she desires, or die!""Pray make use of my sword, " invited his Grace. "It is in the corner behind you.

You will have relatively less problems to solve, if you don't confuse problems with inconveniences.

He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses," said Mrs. Cadwallader.

question the status quo; rebuke the existing rules, though it may be at the discomfort of the masses. They may however come to a later realization that it was really worth it and you may now have the status quo

My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.

I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.

He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one unintended hungry look into my eyes and he betrayed each of his words he had carefully spoken to me. I knew it in that instant. He was a viscerally driven man. And one day, he would possess me.

How I define patriotism, a knife, a riffle and some hand-gernades.

The wit taught by God to the beeIs withheld from the lion and the wild ass.

Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.

I didn't cross the line, you drew it in after I traversed it.

I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.

Great men may jest with saints 'tis wit in them But in the less foul profanation.

You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.

JACK.I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.ALGERNON.We have.JACK.I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about?ALGERNON.The fools? Oh! about the clever people, of course.JACK.What fools!

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous andshallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what youknow ain't so'.

Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.

Give the People what they want - and they'll get what they deserve.

I shall always inspire many hearts in timeless moments.

It is the curse of the competent―not to be called upon.

If you change who you are to suit other people, you may end up dressed for the wrong occasion

The creative process is a love story that never ends. The ideas are like suitors competing for your attention. You may have relationships, with multiple ideas, at once. You may devote yourself completely to one idea, for a awhile, but the affairs will never end. There will always be more ideas to romance and more concepts to develop. And all for that wonderful moment when you get to gaze at the complete creation and hold perfection in your arms, for one blissful moment... before your inner-critic starts tearing it to shreds.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

We both smile at the classic misunderstanding. It’s all so cliché-ridden, it’s embarrassing. I wish our story could have some more original twists and turns. Maybe one of us will turn into a vampire or something.

When I battle wits with Jarod Kintz I always feel like I need to take my brain out to give him a transplant. Bad part is we don't have any.

Author is the prisoner of his thoughts .

There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.

He drew a circle that shut me out-Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout.But love and I had the wit to win:We drew a circle and took him In !From the poem " Outwitted