William Shakespeare Quotes About Wit
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If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.
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The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
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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.
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A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
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I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.
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How now, wit! Whither wander you?
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When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.
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I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.
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This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite.
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I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
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His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.
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What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.
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I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
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Muster your wits; stand in your own defence.
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A good wit will make use of anything.
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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.
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Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.
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He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
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What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!
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Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
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When the age is in, the wit is out
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My wits begin to turn.
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The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible.
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They have a plentiful lack of wit.
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How every fool can play upon the word!
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Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.
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Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.
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If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit, The one's for use, the other useth it.
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There's many a man hath more hair than wit.
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