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Wit Quotes

People are always saying, 'You use irony,' and it's like, actually, we don't use irony: we use wit and playfulness and irreverence.

People Saying You Irony Wit Always

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

Love Humor Adventure Philosophy Wit

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

Alexander Chase

Great Man Great Man Wit Pass

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

Learn You Paris London Wit Crush

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

Fashion You Wit Two Out Cannot

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

Woman Wit Sinner Justification Text

A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.

Carolina Herrera

Strength Man Tolerance Mystery Wit

All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O'Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don't have that kind of wit and genius. We don't do that. We sit down and have some accidents.

Rest Genius Down Kind Talk Wit

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Character Imagination Appearance Wit

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

Think Behavior Human Behavior Wit

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

Stephen Leacock

People Information Conversation Wit

My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.

Beauty Father Grace Wit Charm Had

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

Lord John Russell

Wisdom Wit Many Proverb

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

Humor Think Kind Wit Capable Big

I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to ambition and wit.

Crazy Ambition Find Go Wit Tattoos

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Sail More Wit Judgment Than Less

The Americans just have a great sort of wit about them.

Great Wit Just About Sort Them

England gave me a chance. It's a very individual country where people have a personal style; they don't all follow a trend. The subtlety and wit of England is incredible, and they are very creative.

Style Creative People Me Chance Wit

I hope wit comes through in all the characters I portray.

Hope Wit Through Characters Portray

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

You Wit Anything Got Because Melody

I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.

Life Beauty Time Fun Simplicity Wit

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Art Human Wit Narrow Vast

I'm a quick wit, straight to the point, no nonsense.

Nonsense Wit Quick Point Straight

I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there.

Neil Patrick Harris

Fun People Enjoy Career Nice Wit

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