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Tag Name "Wit" (874)

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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
William Penn
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Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
William Penn
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
William Penn
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For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
William Shakespeare
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His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.
William Shakespeare
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Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.
William Shakespeare
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I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride, Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide. Do not extort thy reasons from this clause, For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause But rather reason thus with reason fetter, Love sought is good, but given unsought better.
William Shakespeare
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They have a plentiful lack of wit.
William Shakespeare
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Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.
William Shakespeare
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Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.
William Shakespeare
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I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
William Shakespeare
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If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit, The one's for use, the other useth it.
William Shakespeare
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My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
William Shakespeare
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He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
William Shakespeare
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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.
William Shakespeare
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Grief hath two tongues and never woman yet Could rule them both without ten women's wit.
William Shakespeare
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Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.
William Shakespeare
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If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.
William Shakespeare
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I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.
William Shakespeare
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When the age is in, the wit is out
William Shakespeare
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Slanders, sir, for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging think amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams.
William Shakespeare
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He is winding the watch of his wit by and by it will strike.
William Shakespeare
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It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.
Alain-Rene Lesage
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On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).
Alain-Rene Lesage
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