Witz / Wit Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Witz / Wit:

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade. Noel Coward

Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

Margaret Cavendish

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

Alexander Chase

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.

Emanuel Celler

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

James Boswell

There's many a man has more hair than wit.

William Shakespeare

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

Noel Coward

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

Mike Leigh

And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, 'Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.'

John McCain

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

Henry Fielding

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

Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

William Wycherley

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

Madame de Stael

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

William Shakespeare

The well of true wit is truth itself.

George Meredith

Your wit makes others witty.

Catherine the Great

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

Carrie Brownstein

Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.

Ray Manzarek

Lots of people would say House doesn't have any charm at all. I would disagree, though: I find him immensely charming and endlessly entertaining. He has a sort of grace and a wit about him, and ultimately, I think he is on the side of the angels.

Hugh Laurie

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Ambrose Bierce

I learnt so much wit, really, from the Globe audiences. If you can make a circle, even in a proscenium theater, if you can get a circular energy going, so that all these people are involved with it and present, then there is something curious that happens with the imagination.

Mark Rylance

President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift.

Elton Gallegly

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

Montesquieu

Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit.

E. F. Benson

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Alexander Pope

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

Thomas Willis

Other female rappers are overly sexual, have no wit, and their lyrics are so generic. I want to change the game to make rap that shows I'm not a normal female rapper - it's not about how rich I am, how much sex I have, or how many boyfriends I have. That's just not me.

Awkwafina

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

W. Somerset Maugham

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Alexander Pope

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

John Selden

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

James Boswell

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

Maurice Chevalier

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

Chris Cooper

There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I'll just enjoy the wit of a Picabia or a Duchamp. It amuses me that they thought that what they did would be a good way of making art.

David Bowie

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

William Blake

Wit is educated insolence.

Aristotle