Quotes by Wit Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it. Gilbert K. Chesterton wit wells people I mean somebody with the wit and the guts to go and do and create. And, that I believe is what education is all about Gordon Pask wit mean believe He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing wit tongue certain Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I say it - God. Graydon Carter troublemaker wit dare The Germans wit is in his fingers. George Herbert wit fingers He thought he was a wit, and he was half right. Henri Arnold Seyrig wit half Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. Helen Rowland cynic jest wit If you can't convince them [with your logic] then just confound them [with your wit.] Harry S. Truman convince wit logic Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit. Henry Fielding good-humor wit Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit. Hester Lynch Piozzi wit For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike. Herodotus wit blind body You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have. J. R. R. Tolkien wit use heart When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish. Jack Smith wit coins phrases Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists. Jack Vance pertinent-questions wit assuming Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit....They have to fit in context. James J. Kilpatrick simile wit fit Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit. Jean de la Bruyere wit poverty results Just bring your wits. Sometimes that's the most effective weapon any of us has. Jean Ferris wit weapons sometimes The more wit we have, the less satisfied we are with it. Jean le Rond d'Alembert wit satisfied I never have wit until I am below stairs. Jean de la Bruyere stairs wit Wit doesn't make girls pretty. Jeanne Calment wit girl «1234567891011»